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A change of plea hearing was set for Wednesday, but the family has asked prosecutors to delay it to give them more time to ...
Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder ...
Bryan Kohberger, the 30-year-old accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students in their apartment in 2022, ...
Japan’s most recent execution, in July 2022, was of a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in ...
On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...
Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder.
As of June 19, 2025, there were 169 people on death row in Texas. Four of them are women, including Melissa Lucio, who was convicted in 2008 of beating her 2-year-old daughter to death.
Catholic organizations had lobbied Pat Quinn to end the death penalty. The former governor was not previously aware of ...
A coalition of California and national civil rights leaders called on Governor Gavin Newsom to commute the death sentences of ...
Christopher Barbour tried to take back his confession more than 30 years ago. Now, new DNA points to someone else.
The Associated Press reported that Richard Gerald Jordan is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State ...
The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...
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