Gregory Hunt was convicted of killing Karen Lane, a woman he had been dating for about a month, according to court records.

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An Oklahoma County judge continued a bond hearing Tuesday for Richard Glossip, who was on death row in Oklahoma for nearly 30 ...

Scott Panetti had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, paranoid delusions, depression and insomnia. His case made it to the U.S ...

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Thomas Creech, 73, survived his own execution after medics tried for almost an hour to administer a lethal drug into his veins at Idaho Maximum Security prison ...

At a recent symposium at San Quentin prison, a group of district attorneys from across California met with inmates to talk ...

Some states were more severe ... were formed in different colonies for the abolition of the death penalty and to relieve poor prison conditions. Dr. Benjamin Rush, a renowned Philadelphia citizen ...

Joaquin Guzman Lopez, who has been in custody for more than two years in a federal drug trafficking case in Chicago, will not face the death penalty ... into the United States from Mexico as ...

countered in a subsequent court filing that “the United States government intends to kill Mr. Mangione as a political stunt.” She wants prosecutors blocked from seeking the death penalty.