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Jan 22 min read
North Carolina Governor Commutes Death Sentences
In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of first-degree...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 24, 20241 min read
Death Row: What Can Donald Trump Do Now?
Donald Trump cannot reverse Biden's death-row commutations. Yet Trump is ready to put more people on death row, as the BBC reports ....
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 19, 20242 min read
‘What Does a Death Sentence Mean When It May Never Be Carried Out?’
“Public attention to the death penalty often focuses on the method of execution and questions about innocence and guilt. But the use of  ...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 15, 20242 min read
TX Court: Legislative Subpoena Can't Block Execution
After a nearly one-month delay in a scheduled execution, the Texas Supreme Court on Friday lifted its stay and ruled that state...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 27, 20243 min read
Nation’s 1,600 Execution Tally Does Not Tell Whole Story
The Washington Post reports  that the nation's 1,600 execution tally is a data point that may not tell the whole story, said Robin M....
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 22, 20242 min read
Bungled Evidence Dashes Hopes of Exoneration for Man on Missouri Death Row
Marcellus Williams, the Missouri death row inmate who had hoped that DNA evidence on the murder weapon would prove his innocence, dropped...
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Crime and Justice News
May 31, 20241 min read
Judge To Reconsider Death Sentence for Killer of Polly Klaas
On Friday, a California judge will review the possibility of rescinding the death sentence for Richard Allen Davis, who was convicted of...
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Crime and Justice News
May 3, 20241 min read
Kentucky Judge Won’t Lift Ban on Executions -- Yet
Though Kentucky's attorney general has called for a restart to executions, Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd, whose order...
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Crime and Justice News
May 3, 20241 min read
Alabama Supreme Court Grants Request For Second Gas Execution
Alabama has authorized the execution of a second inmate by nitrogen gas, months after the state became the first state to put a person to...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 18, 20241 min read
Study: Black Prisoners Face Higher Rate of Botched Executions
An anti-death penalty group found that lethal injections of Black people in the United States were botched more than twice as often as...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 9, 20241 min read
'Rehabilitated' Death-Row Inmate Scheduled for Execution Today
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson rejected death-penalty clemency for Brian Dorsey, a 52-year-old man convicted in the December 2006...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 22, 20241 min read
Alabama: Activists Push to Resentence Some on Death Row
Activists held a rally Thursday outside the Alabama Statehouse urging lawmakers to pass a bill that would allow the re-sentencing of...
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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
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
Nov 29, 20231 min read
Alabama Judge Resigns After Being Suspended Twice
Tracie Todd, an Alabama judge who was twice suspended from the bench since 2021 and convicted last year of violating judicial ethics, has...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 10, 20232 min read
Texas Executes Brent Brewer For 1990 Murder
The state of Texas executed Brent Brewer, who spent three decades on death row on Thursday evening for the 1990 murder of Robert...
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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
Oct 27, 20231 min read
Texas Court Grants Reprieve to Death Row Inmate Hours Before Execution
In Texas, the state’s top criminal appeals court stayed the execution of inmate William Speer, 49, less than five hours before his...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 21, 20232 min read
Executions Resume, But Longer Trend Still Points Down
If 2022 was, in the words of the Death Penalty Information Center, "the year of botched executions," then 2023 marks a return to...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 14, 20232 min read
What Explains Different DOJ Death Penalty Decisions?
In two different mass shootings, each killing more than 10 people based on racist reasons, the Department of Justice authorized the death...
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