Alabama Set to Use Nitrogen in Executions by Year's End
Alabama is close to completing a protocol for using nitrogen gas as a new form of execution in the state, fueling warnings from advocacy...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 13, 20232 min read
DOJ Policy In Capital Punishment Cases Called Inconsistent
Critics say that the Justice Department’s different approaches in a pair of mass-killing cases show that the Biden administration has...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 9, 20231 min read
Texas Executes Killer Who Said Trial Was Affected By Racial Bias
John Balentine, a man convicted of killing three teenagers while they slept in a Texas home more than 25 years ago, was executed on...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 8, 20232 min read
Missouri Executes Killer of Family Nearly Two Decades Ago
Leonard Taylor, who was convicted of killing his girlfriend and her three children at their home in the St. Louis suburb of Jennings...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 2, 20231 min read
Texas Executes Hispanic Inmate For Killing Police Officer In 2007
Texas executed an inmate convicted of fatally shooting a Dallas police officer nearly 16 years ago after a high-speed chase. Wesley Ruiz,...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 30, 20232 min read
Oklahoma AG Halts Execution Calendar With Investigation
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond launched an investigation into the planned execution of Richard Glossip only two weeks after...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 24, 20232 min read
Court Voids 30-Year-Old CA Death Sentence Over Self-Representation
A 1992 death sentence of a man convicted of a series of murders and robberies was pardoned by the California Supreme Court on Monday...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 20, 20232 min read
Tennessee Officials Fired Over Lethal Injection Execution Errors
After an independent investigation into Tennessee's lethal injection execution protocol found the process has been riddled with errors...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 19, 20232 min read
Critics Say Biden Has Done Little To Stop Capital Punishment
In Boston, the Justice Department is pressing judges to uphold Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence. In New York, it is...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 18, 20232 min read
DOJ Won't Seek Death Penalty For 2019 Walmart Shooter
The Justice Department won’t seek the death penalty for Patrick Crusius, accused of killing 23 people in 2019 at a Walmart in El Paso....
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 17, 20232 min read
California Moves Ahead With Plans to Dismantle Death Row
California is moving ahead with controversial efforts to dismantle the nation's largest death row system. Under Gov. Gavin Newsom, the...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 13, 20232 min read
Oklahoma Man Is Executed For 20-Year-Old Murder Conviction
Oklahoma executed a man who was convicted of killing an elderly couple and committing other crimes 20 years ago before authorities caught...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 11, 20231 min read
Former TX Police Officer Executed For Planning Wife's Murder
A former suburban Houston police officer was executed for hiring two people to kill his estranged wife nearly 30 years ago amid a...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 9, 20232 min read
Supreme Court Orders Review of TX Death Penalty Case With DNA Issues
The Supreme Court on Monday revived a Texas death row inmate’s claim that his murder conviction should be voided on the grounds that DNA...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 9, 20232 min read
First Death Penalty Trial Under Biden Starting In NYC
On Halloween 2017, Sayfullo Saipov plowed a rented pickup truck down Manhattan’s crowded West Side bicycle path, smashing into...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 4, 20232 min read
TX Death Row Inmates Call Execution Drugs Expired, Unsafe
Three Texas death row inmates charged in a lawsuit that the state plans to use expired and unsafe drugs to carry out executions in...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 3, 20231 min read
First Execution Of Transgender Woman Set In Missouri Stabbing
Nearly 1,600 death row inmates have been put to death in the U.S. since 1977. An execution scheduled for Tuesday in Missouri would be the...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 29, 20222 min read
Tennessee Failed To Test Execution Drugs Properly Since 2018
Tennessee has not complied with its own lethal injection process since it was revised in 2018, resulting in several executions being...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 28, 20222 min read
Alabama Struggles To Make Lethal Injections Work Amid Criticism
On three occasions in four months, Alabama’s department of corrections has bungled its lethal injections procedure. In each case, IV...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 16, 20222 min read
More Than One-Third Of Executions In 2022 Were Flawed
Seven of the 20 execution attempts carried out this year were visibly problematic, says the Death Penalty Information Center. Several...
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