Alabama Man Executed, Had Killed Five in Ax and Gun Rampage
Alabama executed a man Thursday who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016 and dropped...
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Oct 182 min read
Texas Supreme Court Halts Scheduled Execution Of Man In Shaken-Baby-Syndrome Case
The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night’s scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U.S. put to...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 112 min read
SC Death Row Inmate Richard Moore Seeks Clemency Decision Beyond Governor
A South Carolina inmate scheduled to be executed in just over three weeks is asking a federal judge to take away the power of granting...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 273 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
Sep 131 min read
Judge Rejects Innocence Claim for Marcellus Williams, Set for Execution Later This Month
On Thursday, a judge refused to overturn the conviction and death sentence of Marcellus Williams, a Missouri man set for execution later...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 12 min read
South Carolina Court Rules Firing Squad Legal for Death Row Inmates
The South Carolina Supreme Court determined on Wednesday that the use of the electric chair and firing squad as methods for executing...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 272 min read
Texas Executes Man for 2001 Abduction and Murder of Teen
On Wednesday evening, a Texas man was executed after admitting to kidnapping, sexually assaulting, and fatally shooting an 18-year-old...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 71 min read
Bungled Idaho Execution Part of 'Troubling Trend'
“The worst ones was when they got down to my ankles,” Thomas Creech said in his first interview since he was wheeled into the execution...
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Crime and Justice News
May 311 min read
Supreme Court Refuses To Pause Alabama Execution Despite State’s History of Mishaps
The Supreme Court refused on Thursday to pause an Alabama execution to review whether the state’s procedures violate the Constitution....
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Crime and Justice News
May 31 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 31 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 181 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 91 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
Feb 291 min read
Texas Executes Abner Cantu, Despite Calls To Spare His Life
Wednesday evening, the state of Texas executed Ivan Abner Cantu, a 50-year-old Dallas native who maintained his innocence and garnered...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 291 min read
Idaho Prison Botches Lethal Injection of Serial Killer
For nearly an hour, Thomas Eugene Creech lay strapped to a table in an Idaho execution chamber as medical team members poked and prodded...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 61 min read
South Carolina Wants to Restart Executions. Lawyers Fight Back.
Lawyers for four death row inmates are expected to argue to the South Carolina Supreme Court that the state’s old electric chair and new...
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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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