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4 days ago2 min read
Arizona Executes Man For 2002 Murder
At 10:33 a.m. on Wednesday, March 19, Aaron Gunches died by lethal injection in Arizona as punishment for the murder of Ted Price in...
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5 days ago2 min read
Louisiana Executes Inmate In State's First Nitrogen Gas Killing
Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used...
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Crime and Justice News
7 days ago2 min read
Louisiana Can Carry Out Nitrogen Gas Execution, Appeals Court Rules
Louisiana's first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned after a federal appeals court on Friday vacated a...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 121 min read
Federal Judge Blocks Louisiana's First Nitrogen Execution
A federal judge in Baton Rouge has issued a preliminary injunction to stop Louisiana from moving forward with its first nitrogen gas...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 92 min read
South Carolina Firing Squad Execution Called 'Bloody Spectacle'
A South Carolina firing squad executed Brad Sigmon for the beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, the first firing squad...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 72 min read
Some Red States Push Back Against Trump’s Death Penalty Expansion
While President Donald Trump and other national Republican leaders push to expand the use of capital punishment, some GOP-led states are...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 62 min read
LA, AR Look To Nitrogen Gas Executions Amid Criticism
Hours after the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution in January last year, Alabama’s attorney general urged other states to develop it...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 32 min read
Firing Squad Execution Due In South Carolina, First In 15 Years
South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 32 min read
AL Gov Commutes Death Sentence Of Convict In 1991 Murder
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is sparing the life of capital murder convict Robin “Rocky” Myers. Ivey commuted Myers’ sentence to life with no...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 141 min read
Ohio Gov Delays Three Executions, Citing Drug Shortage
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine extended the state’s unofficial death penalty moratorium again Thursday as he postponed three more executions that...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 142 min read
Texas, Florida Conduct Nation's Fourth, Fifth Executions In 2025
A Texas man who killed his strip club manager and another man, later prompting a massive lockdown of the state prison system when he used...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 122 min read
Arizona Court Sets Execution Date For 17-Year-Old Murder Case
The Arizona Supreme Court set a March 19 execution date Tuesday for a man who pleaded guilty to murder more than 17 years ago and...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 112 min read
LA Plans First Execution In 10 Years, Opponents To Challenge Nitrogen
A Rapides Parish, La., man could be the first person the state puts to death in 15 years after the district attorney obtained a warrant...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 102 min read
Race Bias Ruling In NC Black Man’s Case May Help Death Row Inmates
A North Carolina judge ruled that a Black defendant’s capital trial was undermined by allegations of racial bias during jury selection,...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 72 min read
Alabama Uses Nitrogen Gas To Put 1991 Murderer To Death
A man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday in Alabama in the nation’s...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 312 min read
SC Death Row Inmate Loses Appeal Citing Weight To Block Execution
A South Carolina prisoner who has been on death row for more than half his life has just a few hours until his execution but his lawyers...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 292 min read
Federal Judge Hears Case To Block Alabama’s Fourth Gas Execution
The state of Alabama urged a federal judge Tuesday to allow the nation’s fourth execution with nitrogen gas to proceed next week, but a...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 282 min read
SC Inmate Spends Days Before Execution In 'Inhumane' Isolation
For 135 days, Marion Bowman Jr has been locked in a solitary cell narrower than his arm span, cut off from nearly all human interaction,...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 222 min read
Texas, U.S. Capital Punishment Leader, Showing Less Interest
In 1982, Texas was the first in the world to execute an inmate by lethal injection, its first execution since the U.S. Supreme Court...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 222 min read
Justices Order OK Woman's Death Sentence Review On Gender Issues
The Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday that an Oklahoma woman deserved a review of whether unlawful gender stereotyping put her on death...
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