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Crime and Justice News
Oct 23, 20242 min read
Judge Rules SC Governor Should Retain Clemency Authority After Challenge By Death Row Inmate
A federal judge has ruled that South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster will retain his right to be the final judge of clemency for a death row...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 23, 20242 min read
Juror In Robert Roberson Case Tells Lawmakers She Believes He Is Innocent
A juror in Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson’s 2003 capital murder trial on Monday told the legislative panel that temporarily...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 17, 20242 min read
Could Old Case Upend Court's 'Cruel and Unusual Punishment' Stance?
Joseph Clifton Smith, a man who says he is intellectually disabled, has sat on Alabama's death row for more than a year waiting to find...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 16, 20242 min read
Texas Man Set For Execution In Shaken Baby Diagnosis Awaits Clemency Decision
A Texas man who this week could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 14, 20241 min read
After Dropping, 2024's Execution Total Could Be Highest Since 2015
After five recent executions around the U.S., the Death Penalty Information Center says that eight more are scheduled for the final few...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 10, 20242 min read
Supreme Court Hears Arguments Over New Trial For Oklahoma Death Row Inmate
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case that pits Oklahoma's attorney general against the state’s highest court for...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 8, 20242 min read
Texas Execution Plan Renews Calls for Rarely Granted Clemency
A man from Texas who is scheduled for execution next week is the focus of a renewed clemency effort., supported by several Republican...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 4, 20241 min read
OK Death Penalty Case Of Richard Glossip Returns To High Court
The Supreme Court ruled against Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip in 2015, and if not for a corrections department blunder, he’d...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 3, 20242 min read
ACLU Suit Highlights Albuquerque DWI Bribery Scandal
A civil rights group is suing the city of Albuquerque, its police department and top officials on behalf of a man who was among those...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 2, 20242 min read
Texas Executes Harris County Man Linked to Five Killings
Texas executed Garcia White on Tuesday for multiple murders he committed between 1989 and 1995. White, 61, was administered a lethal...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 26, 20241 min read
OK Executes Man For Murder After Governor Rejects Commutation
Oklahoma executed Emmanuel Littlejohn for his role in the 1992 shooting death of a convenience store owner after the governor rejected a...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 25, 20242 min read
Marcellus Williams Executed In Missouri Over Objections Of Prosecutors, Victim's Family
Marcellus Williams, a Missouri man convicted of breaking into a woman’s home and repeatedly stabbing her was executed Tuesday despite the...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 25, 20242 min read
Officers Accused Of Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions In Alabama
Brandon McKenzie, leader of Alabama’s execution team, plays a key role in executions, despite facing allegations of violent behavior. He...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 25, 20242 min read
Oklahoma Man Maintains He's Innocent Of Killing As Execution Looms
Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, is set to be executed in Oklahoma on Thursday — despite serious questions over whether or not he is guilty of...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 23, 20242 min read
SC Executes Man Despite Witness' Statement That He Was Innocent
South Carolina executed Freddie Eugene Owens for the shooting death of a convenience store clerk on Friday as his mother begged ...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 20, 20242 min read
States Plan Five Executions In The Next Week; Appeals Still Pending
Starting Friday, five states are planning to carry out executions within one week, including one man who is likely innocent. It is rare...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 18, 20241 min read
Texas Lawmakers Gather To Stop Execution Of Alleged Murderer
A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers petitioned Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday to...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 18, 20242 min read
Will Death Row Defendants Lose The Right To Share Their Stories?
Last March marked the 20th anniversary of Wiggins v. Smith, a Supreme Court decision that requires defense lawyers in death penalty cases...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 18, 20242 min read
Mississippi Supreme Court Denies Appeal Of Man On Death Row Since 1994
The Mississippi Supreme Court has denied the latest appeal by a man who has been on death row for 30 years after he was convicted of...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 4, 20242 min read
South Carolina Prisoner Awaiting Execution Says Prison Didn’t Provide Enough Information On Lethal Drug
Lawyers for the South Carolina inmate scheduled to be put to death later this month said Tuesday state prison officials didn’t provide...
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