Survivors Sue PA County Over Man Wrongfully Executed In 1931
Susie Williams Carter was one year old when her 16-year-old brother, Alexander McClay Williams, was convicted of murder and executed in...
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May 162 min read
35 CA Death Row Cases Reviewed For Possible Jury Selection Bias
In a shocking revelation in the California criminal justice system, prosecutors' notes from decades ago indicate a deliberate attempt to...
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Crime and Justice News
May 152 min read
In Louisiana, Ruling Casts Doubt On New Execution Methods
A ruling by a Louisiana state court judge is raising doubts about whether or not the state can implement new execution methods that were...
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Crime and Justice News
May 31 min read
Kentucky Judge Won’t Lift Ban on Executions -- Yet
Though Kentucky's attorney general has called for a restart to executions, Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd, whose order...
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Crime and Justice News
May 31 min read
Alabama Supreme Court Grants Request For Second Gas Execution
Alabama has authorized the execution of a second inmate by nitrogen gas, months after the state became the first state to put a person to...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 252 min read
Wrongful Use Or Threat Of Death Penalty Involved In Over 10% Of 2023 Exonerations
The pursuit or threatened use of the death penalty by police or prosecutors led to the wrongful murder convictions of at least seventeen...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 231 min read
CA Prosecutors Excluded Jewish, Black Jurors In Death Penalty Cases
A California prosecutor is reviewing 35 death penalty cases records suggested that prosecutors purposefully excluded Jewish and Black...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 102 min read
Missouri Man Executed For 2006 Killing Of Cousin And Her Husband
A Missouri man was executed Tuesday for killing his cousin and her husband nearly two decades ago in an attack that left the couple’s...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 41 min read
Oklahoma Executes Man Convicted Of Two Killings in 2002
Michael Dewayne Smith, who was convicted of shooting and killing two people in Oklahoma City more than two decades ago, was executed...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 42 min read
Judge, Prison Staffers Seek Reprieve For Missouri Death Row Inmate
With less than a week until Brian Dorsey is scheduled to be executed in Missouri for the 2006 killings of his cousin and her husband, an...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 32 min read
Some States Pay Flat Fees For Death Penalty Defense. Critics Say It Creates Perverse Incentives.
Some states still pay defense attorneys flat fees in death penalty cases, creating perverse incentives when a life is at stake, critics...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 32 min read
After Oklahoma Prisons Ask For More Time To Carry Out Executions, Judge Says ‘Suck It Up’
An appeals court judge in Oklahoma reportedly told state execution schedulers to “suck it up” and “man up” after they requested a 90-day...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 202 min read
Georgia Man Scheduled To Be First Person In State Executed In Four Years
A Georgia man convicted of killing his former girlfriend three decades ago is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday in what would be the...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 112 min read
Top Nitrogen Gas Manufacturers in U.S. Bar Use in Executions
Three of the largest manufacturers of medical-grade nitrogen gas in the U.S. have barred their products from being used in executions...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 72 min read
In Idaho, Other States, Volunteers Perform Lethal Injections
Eight times, a medical team in an Idaho prison tried to establish an intravenous line to deliver a lethal injection to condemned inmate...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 291 min read
Texas Executes Abner Cantu, Despite Calls To Spare His Life
Wednesday evening, the state of Texas executed Ivan Abner Cantu, a 50-year-old Dallas native who maintained his innocence and garnered...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 291 min read
Idaho Prison Botches Lethal Injection of Serial Killer
For nearly an hour, Thomas Eugene Creech lay strapped to a table in an Idaho execution chamber as medical team members poked and prodded...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 262 min read
Idaho Execution Set After 43 Years, Reflecting Long Death Row Stays
Serial killer Thomas Creech, now 73, was sentenced to death in 1976, before Jimmy Carter became president. On Wednesday, Creech is set...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 192 min read
KS AG Kris Kobach Plans For State's First Execution In Six Decades
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is preparing for the state’s first execution in nearly six decades. Kobach wants a change in state...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 132 min read
New Project Helps Families Visit Loved Ones in Federal Death Row
The Death Row Visitation Project was an attempt to make something good out of the 2020 execution spree that killed 12 men and one woman...
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