State asks high court to set execution dates for 5 men on death row
Tennessee's attorney general has filed notice seeking execution dates for five men on death row. It's another sign the state ...
South Carolina Death Row Inmate Chooses to Be Executed by a Firing Squad
The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...
Death-row inmate deemed incompetent to be executed is to be reevaluated
Authorities say Trooper Nikky Green was fatally shot with his own gun while trying to arrest Ricky Malone for allegedly ...
Lawyers spar over COVID-related agreement that shields some on Georgia’s death row from execution
Lawyers are sparring over a COVID-19-related agreement that has shielded some people on Georgia's death row from execution.
Florida and Texas execute intellectually disabled death row inmates
The US carried out a double state killing on Thursday, with two states executing intellectually disabled death row inmates.
Why new Attorney General Pam Bondi is going all in on the federal death penalty
Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after ...
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Judge rejects request from Georgia death row inmate to be executed by firing squad
A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed by firing squad because he claims that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain. Michael Wade Nance ...
Death Row Inmate Mouthed a 2-Word Message to His Victims’ Families in Final Moments Before His Execution
A man — who was convicted in Texas of a double homicide and confessed to killing two others — sought penance from the ...
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Death Row Inmate Mouthed a 2-Word Message to His Victims’ Families in Final Moments Before His Execution
He had also asked that his appeals be dropped and that he be put to death, though he had gone back and forth on the decision multiple times, the AP reported. “More than twenty years after his ...
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OKC woman on death row says prosecutors sex shamed her; U.S. Supreme Court orders review
OKLAHOMA CITY — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in favor of convicted murderer Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, ordering a lower court to review whether she got a ...
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Even in Death, Navalny Is Seen by the Kremlin as an Enduring Threat
The death one year ago of Mr. Navalny, who once led tens of thousands of Russians against the Kremlin on the streets of Moscow, dealt a serious blow to Russia’s already beleaguered opposition.
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Crime & Courts
Chief Justice Susan M. Carney’s comments follow Anchorage Daily News/ProPublica reporting that found the median time to resolve the most serious felonies in Alaska was three years in 2023 ...