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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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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Crime and Justice News
Sep 1, 20232 min read
On Texas’ Death Row, Game Provides Escapist Fantasy
On one of the largest and most restrictive death rows in the nation, some have turned to the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons to...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 21, 20231 min read
No Executions In Five Years; Ohio Death Row Stay Averages 21 Years
Ohio’s next execution of a death row inmate was scheduled for November 16. That date, like so many others, has been pushed back. It’s...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 4, 20232 min read
Florida Inmate Executed for 1988 Brutal Killing of Nurse
In the fifth Florida execution this year, death row inmate James Barnes, who confessed to killing his estranged wife, was executed...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 3, 20232 min read
Louisiana Death Row Inmates Ask Governor For Mass Clemency
All but one of Louisiana’s death row inmates are trying to persuade Gov. John Bel Edwards and the clemency board to commute their...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 2, 20232 min read
MO Man Executed Despite Mental Illness; Three Justices Dissent
The Supreme Court rejected a request to block the execution of Johnny Johnson, who abducted and beat a 6-year-old Missouri girl to death,...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 7, 20231 min read
DeSantis' Execution Increase Before Election Is Political, Critics Say
Critics say Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is speeding up executions in the state as a presidential campaign move, USA Today reports. DeSantis...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 27, 20232 min read
Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty In Idaho Student Murders
Prosecutors announced a plan to seek the death penalty for Bryan Kohberger, the suspect accused of murdering four University of Idaho...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 16, 20231 min read
Florida Executes Man For Two Killings Nearly 40 Years Ago
A Florida man was executed for killing a 14-year-old babysitter and a 38-year-old mother of two in separate 1984 attacks in Palm Beach...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 14, 20231 min read
51 Louisiana Death Row Inmates Seek Reduced Sentences
Fifty-one Louisiana death row inmates filed clemency applications Tuesday, asking Gov. John Bel Edwards to reduce their sentences to life...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 7, 20231 min read
Missouri Executes Man For Killing Two Jailers 23 Years Ago
A Missouri man who shot and killed two jailers in 2000 ago during a failed bid to help an acquaintance escape from a rural jail was...
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Crime and Justice News
May 31, 20231 min read
Black-Led Groups Lead Fight Against Death Penalty Resurgence
As Republicans attempt to increase the use of the death penalty, Black-led organizations are working to stop those efforts, citing the...
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Crime and Justice News
May 16, 20231 min read
Supreme Court Sides With Alabama Inmate Over Nitrogen Execution
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with an Alabama death row inmate, who had his lethal injection called off at the last minute in...
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Crime and Justice News
May 7, 20232 min read
Justices Delay Glossip Execution In 1997 Murder-For-Hire To Study Case
The Supreme Court temporarily blocked Oklahoma from executing Richard Glossip for his role in a 1997 murder-for-hire after the state’s...
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Crime and Justice News
May 4, 20231 min read
Florida Executes Man For Killing Woman 37 Years After The Crime
A Florida man was executed for breaking into a woman’s home and stabbing her to death in 1986, months after he was released from prison...
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Crime and Justice News
May 2, 20232 min read
DeSantis Signs Death Penalty Law For Child Rape, Defying High Court
A law making child rape subject to the death penalty was signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who defied a Supreme Court ruling on the...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 27, 20232 min read
Oklahoma Board Rejects Clemency For Glossip In 2-2 Vote
The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board rejected clemency Wednesday for high-profile death row inmate Richard Glossip, ignoring pleas by the...
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