Truthout4d
I’m 1 of More Than 600 People on CA’s Death Row. Newsom Must End Death Penalty.
Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.
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 ...
NOLA.com6d
The history of the death penalty in Louisiana: How executions, opinions changed over time
It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...
Erie News Now9d
Death Penalty Fast Facts
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...
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Why man on death row chose gruelling execution method that hasn’t been used in 15 years
South Carolina death row inmate Brad Sigmon's lawyer has revealed why he's chosen to die by an execution method not used in ...
Los Angeles Times29d
Opinion: It’s now clear that America’s death penalty is dying one generation at a time
and the number of people on death row, about 2,250. Public support for the death penalty, meanwhile, remained at a five-decade low, 53%. But the report’s most important finding for the future of ...
Dallas Morning News9d
What to know about the death penalty and death row in Texas
As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...
The Advocate6d
The history of the death penalty in Louisiana: How executions, opinions changed over time
Fifty-seven people are currently on death row in Louisiana ... championing a law that would add child rape to the list of crimes punishable by death. The law was overturned by the U.S. Supreme ...