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China Executes Two Men For 'Revenge On Society' Crimes
China executed two men who committed deadly attacks that killed dozens in November, raising concerns about a surge in what are called...
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Jan 201 min read
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Two Death Row Inmates Reject Biden’s Commuted Sentences
Two prisoners among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Biden — a move that spares them...
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Jan 72 min read
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AZ Death Row Inmate Advocate Protests Lethal Injection Plan
Death by lethal injection appears as if the condemned person just went to sleep. Looks can be deceiving. Anesthesiologists know that an...
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Jan 72 min read
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Tennessee Sets New Execution Protocol With Single Drug
More than 2 years after Tennessee abruptly halted Oscar Smith's execution, admitting that correction officials were not following...
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Dec 28, 20242 min read
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Trump To Death Row Inmates Biden Commuted: 'Go To Hell!'
President-elect Trump used a lengthy Christmas Day social media post to tell the 37 people who had their death sentences commuted by...
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Dec 26, 20242 min read
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Biden Commutes 37 On Death Row Before Trump Can Execute Them
President Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly every prisoner on the federal government’s death row, a sweeping decision designed...
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Dec 23, 20242 min read
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Florida Imposes Seven Death Sentences In 2024, Most In U.S.
Florida led the nation this year in imposing death sentences, apparently due to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ successful push to eliminate the...
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Dec 20, 20242 min read
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Florida Imposed 7 Death Sentences This Year, Most in Nation
Florida led the nation this year in imposing death sentences, apparently due to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ successful push to eliminate the...
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Dec 20, 20242 min read
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Oklahoma Executes Man For Killing A 10-Year-Old Girl 18 Years Ago
Oklahoma executed Kevin Ray Underwood on Thursday for killing a 10-year-old girl in April 2006. Underwood was died by lethal injection...
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Dec 20, 20241 min read
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Killer Of 4 Put To Death in Indiana’s First Execution in 15 Years
An Indiana man convicted of killing four people, including his brother and his sister’s fiancé, decades ago was put to death early...
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Dec 18, 20242 min read
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Prisoners On Death Row Reduced Drastically Nationwide In Recent Decades
The lethal injection of Christopher Collings on Dec. 3 left just eight men on death row in Missouri. By contrast, nearly 100 people were...
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Dec 17, 20242 min read
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Coalition Presses Biden To Empty Death Row Before Trump Enters
A coalition of former prison officials, relatives of homicide victims, civil rights advocates and religious leaders is urging President...
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Dec 9, 20242 min read
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States Expand Restrictions On Media Access To Executions
Many states now significantly restrict whether and how members of the press may observe and document the execution process, a survey by...
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Nov 27, 20241 min read
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Death Penalty Opponents Seeking Commutations From Biden
Death penalty opponents took aim with blistering irony at President Biden for pardoning two Thanksgiving turkeys on Monday – reaching a...
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Nov 26, 20241 min read
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Alabama Man Executed By Nitrogen Gas For Woman's 1994 Murder
Alabama executed Carey Dale Grayson, 49, for his role in the murder of Vickie Deblieux in 1994. Grayson was the third person Alabama has...
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Nov 22, 20242 min read
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‘What Does a Death Sentence Mean When It May Never Be Carried Out?’
“Public attention to the death penalty often focuses on the method of execution and questions about innocence and guilt. But the use of ...
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Nov 19, 20242 min read
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Death Penalty Support Falls To 53% As Younger Generations Say No
Younger generations are far less likely than older generations to favor the death penalty for convicted murderers. Overall support for...
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Nov 18, 20242 min read
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Judges Finds Woman On TX Death Row Innocent Of Daughter's Murder
A Texas mother who avoided execution two years ago is "actually innocent" in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, said a judge...
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Nov 17, 20241 min read
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How Trump Could Expand The Use Of The Death Penalty
The U.S. government had not executed anyone for more than 15 years until Donald Trump revived the practice at the tail end of his first...
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Nov 12, 20242 min read
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Justices Seek New Analysis Of IQ Scores, Death Penalty In AL Case
Despite a call from several states to review the constitutionality of evolving capital punishment standards, the Supreme Court on Monday...
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Nov 5, 20242 min read
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