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Jan 26, 20242 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 25, 20242 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 23, 20241 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 22, 20242 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 18, 20242 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 16, 20241 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 12, 20241 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 11, 20241 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 5, 20242 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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Crime and Justice News
Oct 11, 20231 min read
Texas Man Executed; Challenged Evidence Of His Murder In 2000
A Texas man who unsuccessfully challenged the safety of lethal injection drugs and raised questions about evidence used to persuade a...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 4, 20232 min read
Florida Puts Killer Of Two Women To Death, 8th DeSantis Execution
Michael Zack III, who killed two women after meeting them a day apart in north Florida bars in 1996, was put to death Tuesday evening....
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 21, 20231 min read
Oklahoma Executes Death Row Inmate Who Maintains Innocence
After the Oklahoma Supreme Court denied Anthony Sanchez’s request to pause his execution, the state of Oklahoma is set to execute...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 14, 20232 min read
Four Medical Firms Won't Sell Equipment For Lethal Injections
Four medical equipment manufacturing companies are refusing to sell their equipment for use in lethal injection, The Intercept reports....
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