Oklahoma's New Attorney General Seeking Clemency for Glossip
Gentner Drummond, Oklahoma's new attorney general, will ask the state's Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday to spare the life of death...
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Apr 16, 20231 min read
Four Years After Judge Voids Death Penalty, Man Still On Death Row
When U.S. prisons director Colette Peters visited the penitentiary in Terre Haute, In., last week, she stopped by the federal death row...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 13, 20232 min read
Jury Selection Due in Capital Case Against Pittsburgh Synagogue Killer
Robert Bowers, the man charged in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, tried for years to avoid a federal jury trial that...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 13, 20232 min read
‘Ninja Killer’ Executed For 1989 Killing of Couple in Florida
Florida executed a man known as the “ninja killer” on Wednesday for the 1989 slayings of a couple visiting the state from New Jersey....
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 7, 20232 min read
After Probe, OK AG Seeks New Trial For Death Row Inmate Glossip
Oklahoma’s Attorney General, Gentner Drummond, is seeking a new trial in the case of death row inmate Richard Glossip, who has spent a...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 3, 20231 min read
Over 3 Dissents, High Court OK's Death Sentence In 'Angola 5' Case
The Supreme Court let stand the conviction of a Louisiana inmate who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for his role in an...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 28, 20231 min read
Death Penalty Sought in Memphis Shootings That Killed Three
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a Memphis man charged in a shooting spree that killed three people and wounded three others,...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 27, 20232 min read
Despite Biden Vow to End Federal Executions, DOJ Still Presses Hard
Joe Biden was the first U.S. president to campaign on a pledge to end the death penalty, but he and his administration, and his attorney...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 23, 20232 min read
Court Refuses to Lift Arizona Governor's Execution Moratorium
Avoiding a separation-of-powers clash, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that it cannot force Gov. Katie Hobbs to carry out an execution...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 21, 20232 min read
Arizona Courts Under Criticism After Justices' Death Penalty Rulings
Back-to-back U.S. Supreme Court rulings have put Arizona's death penalty under the microscope and could have far-reaching implications...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 21, 20232 min read
Idaho Ok's Firing Squads As Alternative To Lethal Injections
Firing squads to execute condemned inmates when the state can’t get lethal-injection drugs has been suggested by the state of Idaho,...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 15, 20232 min read
AZ Prosecutor, Crime Victims Ask Court To Order Killer's Execution
The Arizona Supreme Court is fast-tracking a decision on whether to order Gov. Katie Hobbs to carry out the execution of a murder...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 10, 20232 min read
In Week's Second Execution, Texas Puts Killer Of Four To Death
Texas executed Arthur Brown, Jr., an inmate convicted of the drug-related killings of four people more than 30 years ago, including a...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 9, 20232 min read
Idaho Favors Firing Squads, Other States Divide On Death Penalty
Idaho wants to bring back the firing squad. The state House last week approved a bill that would allow the execution method as an...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 8, 20231 min read
Texas Executes Man Who Killed His Estranged Wife, Daughter
Gary Green, a Texas inmate convicted of fatally stabbing his estranged wife and drowning her 6-year-old daughter in a bathtub was...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 6, 20232 min read
VA Refuses To Make Public More Audio Tapes Of Executions
On a 1989 audio recording, an inmate is barely audible as he offers his last words before he is executed in Virginia’s electric chair. “I...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 3, 20232 min read
Mitigation Specialists, On the Hunt for Signs of Humanity
It took a jury all of 16 minutes to recommend the death penalty for the rape and murder James Bernard Belcher committed in Jacksonville,...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 24, 20232 min read
Florida Execution For 1990 Stabbing State's First In Nearly Four Years
Florida executed a man on Thursday for murdering a woman in 1990 after he escaped from prison, stabbing her to death in a shopping mall...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 23, 20232 min read
High Court: AZ Death Row Inmate Can Tell Jurors About Life Term
A divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that an Arizona death row inmate was wrongly denied the right to tell jurors he would never get...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 22, 20232 min read
Media Protest Exclusion From NYC Bike-Path Killing Death Penalty Case
A federal judge barred the general public and media from a courtroom where defense lawyers claim emotional testimony from victims has...
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