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Two men accused of homicide in Pennsylvania are asking the state Supreme Court to limit a prosecutor's use of the death ...
More than a dozen inmates in Pennsylvania have been removed from death row this year, leaving the commonwealth with the fewest under a death sentence in nearly a quarter-century. In December ...
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced a moratorium on executions in Pennsylvania on Friday. Some details about his action, the reaction and the death penalty: THE GOVERNOR’S ACTION: Wolf said … ...
5 Pennsylvania death row inmates challenge policy of solitary confinement. The lawsuit says inmates are kept in solitary confinement in a small cell nearly 24 hours a day while they spend their ...
Why Pennsylvania governor’s call to end state’s death penalty may be a game changer by Austin Sarat, opinion contributor - 02/18/23 5:30 PM ET ...
Of the 200 inmates currently on Pennsylvania’s death row, 85 were sentenced to the death penalty before Michael. Thirty-nine of them have been on death row since the 1980s.
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s prison agency agreed to improve death row conditions under a settlement announced Monday of a federal lawsuit that called the inmates’ living standards degrading ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Daniel Gwynn found himself on death row at 25 after Philadelphia prosecutors said in court that two witnesses had picked him out of a photo array in a fatal arson case.
Former Pennsylvania death row inmate freed after prosecutors drop charges before start of retrial Associated Press Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023 1:39 p.m. | Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023 1:39 p.m. Go Ad-Free Today!
Former Pennsylvania death row inmate freed December 20, 2023 at 4:00 a.m. by The Associated Press ...
Former Pennsylvania death row inmate freed after prosecutors drop charges before start of retrial by AP - 12/19/23 12:22 PM ET. by AP - 12/19/23 12:22 PM ET.