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 ...
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Death penalty case revived in federal courts, raising questions about Louisiana execution methods
The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...
Woman who sought asylum in US believed to be deported hours before judge blocked her removal, lawyers say
A federal judge temporarily blocked the deportation of eight asylum seekers, but it was too late for one woman who lawyers say has already been deported.
Maryland woman sentenced to life in prison for brutal murder of her mother
According to court documents, the woman dismembered her mother's body and burned it on a barbeque grill in an attempt to get ...
Once off the table, bills to charge women who get abortions with murder get votes before failing
Abortion rights advocates feared the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that opened the door to state abortion bans would also ...
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Trump appoints Memphis woman as nation’s first ‘pardon czar’
A Memphis woman President Trump pardoned during his first term has been appointed as ‘pardon czar.’ In 2018, Alice Marie Johnson made national headlines after ...
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The Trailblazing Black Librarian Who Rewrote the Rules of Power, Gender and Racial Passing
Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...