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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...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 122 min read
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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...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 112 min read
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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,...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 102 min read
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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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Feb 72 min read
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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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Jan 312 min read
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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...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 292 min read
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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,...
Crime and Justice News
Jan 282 min read
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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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Jan 222 min read
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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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Jan 222 min read
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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...
Crime and Justice News
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...
Crime and Justice News
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...
Crime and Justice News
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...
Crime and Justice News
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...
Crime and Justice News
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...
Crime and Justice News
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...
Crime and Justice News
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...
Crime and Justice News
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...
Crime and Justice News
Dec 17, 20242 min read
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