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Crime and Justice News
May 3, 20241 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 25, 20242 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 23, 20241 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 10, 20242 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 4, 20241 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 4, 20242 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 3, 20242 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 3, 20242 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 20, 20242 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 11, 20242 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 7, 20242 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 29, 20241 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 29, 20241 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 26, 20242 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 19, 20242 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 13, 20242 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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Crime and Justice News
Feb 6, 20241 min read
South Carolina Wants to Restart Executions. Lawyers Fight Back.
Lawyers for four death row inmates are expected to argue to the South Carolina Supreme Court that the state’s old electric chair and new...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 30, 20241 min read
Ohio A.G. Will Reveal Plan To "Kickstart" Executions
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost plans on Tuesday to share details on the future of the state’s executions, which have been consistently...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 30, 20241 min read
St. Louis Prosecutor Asks to Vacate Conviction, Citing New State Law
Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell is seeking to vacate the conviction of death-row resident Marcellus Williams, following a forensic test...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 27, 20242 min read
After Alabama, Other States Could Begin Nitrogen Executions
Alabama’s use of nitrogen gas for an execution could gain traction among other states and change how the death penalty is carried out,...
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