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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Jan 301 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 301 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 272 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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Crime and Justice News
Jan 262 min read
Alabama Inmate Smith is First Executed by Nitrogen Gas
The state of Alabama executed Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, for the 1988 murder-for-hire of Elizabeth Sennett. The execution was the first...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 252 min read
Will Nitrogen Hypoxia Succeed As New Capital Punishment Method?
The state of Alabama tried to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith before and failed, so it is trying a nitrogen method. Smith is scheduled to be...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 231 min read
Critics Raise Doubts On Nitrogen Execution Planned in Alabama
Alabama, unless stopped by the courts, intends to strap inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney and use a gas mask to replace breathable...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 222 min read
Supreme Court Agrees To Review Oklahoma Death Row Inmate Case
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip deserves a new trial in light of newly...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 182 min read
Alabama To Execute Inmate Via ‘Entirely Experimental’ Nitrogen
Next week, Alabama prison officials plan to escort Kenneth Eugene Smith from his cell, strap a mask to his face and replace his breathing...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 161 min read
Missouri Lifts Man's Stay of Execution, Despite DNA Evidence
In 1998, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Felicia Anne Gayle Picus was found dead in her home, stabbed 43 times. Police suspected a...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 121 min read
DOJ Seeks Death Penalty In Buffalo Supermarket Mass Shooting
Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Payton Gendron, a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 111 min read
Judge OK's Alabama Plan To Execute Inmate With Nitrogen
Alabama is on track to become the first state to execute an inmate with nitrogen gas after a federal judge denied a request to stop the...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 52 min read
States Seek Lethal Injection Options; Alabama To Try Nitrogen
Death-penalty states are taking increasingly aggressive steps to keep their execution chambers operating, despite growing public anxiety...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 28, 20231 min read
U.S. Atty General May Pursue First Death Case, for Buffalo, NY Shooter
The Justice Department is nearing a decision over whether to pursue the death penalty for Payton Gendron, the 20-year-old White gunman...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 28, 20231 min read
Florida Increased Use Of Capital Punishment In 2023
Florida increased and expanded its use of the death penalty in 2023 and is one of five states that regularly impose capital punishment,...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 19, 20231 min read
Florida Challenges Supreme Court in Capital Case With No Death
In a first for Florida, prosecutors will pursue capital punishment against a man accused of raping a child where no death occurred, under...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 1, 20232 min read
As Public Support Wanes, The U.S. Sees A Rise In Executions
Phillip Hancock on Thursday became the fourth death row inmate executed in Oklahoma this year. Nationally, executions climbed for the...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 8, 20232 min read
Half Of Americans Think Death Penalty Is Unfairly Applied
More Americans think the death penalty is applied unfairly as opposed to fairly, the first time that this Gallup polling result has...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 3, 20231 min read
Alabama Supreme Court Approves First Nitrogen Gas Execution
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that the state can move forward with executing an inmate through the use of nitrogen gas, a method that...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 15, 20231 min read
Louisiana Death Row Inmates Lose Attempt To Get Clemency Hearings
The Louisiana Board of Pardons voted Friday against granting clemency hearings to five Louisiana death row prisoners, ending a monthslong...
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