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Those five days in November were cold, and seemed colder inside the gates of Auschwitz and of Birkenau. We were 90 ...
Journalist Kevin Sack explores the subversive role forgiveness played by the Black church in resisting oppression.
Jeff Hood's official job is to befriend the death row inmates in the final days of ... Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and Fellowship of Reconciliation USA. Lemley wrote in the ...
COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida man on death row for the 1995 murder of three Cracker Barrel workers has died in prison. He was 55. Records from the Florida Department of Corrections ...
The Utah Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for condemned killer Douglas Stewart Carter. In a unanimous ruling, the state’s top court sided with a lower-court judge who ruled Carter’s ...
Volunteers, as they are called in death penalty circles, have been around since the death penalty was reinstated 50 years ago. About 10% of all U.S. executions are inmates who agree to die before ...
Prison officials moved inmate Oscar Franklin Smith from his death row cell to another room next to the chamber where he is to be executed by lethal injection. Smith's attorney, Kelley Henry ...
a man who has spent decades on death row, merit a new trial. In a unanimous ruling on Thursday, the state's highest court upheld a lower court's decision that police and prosecutors had violated ...
Salt Lake City — Attorneys for a Utah man who's been on death row for 37 years sought to convince ... Madison, who killed a police officer in 1985, died in prison in 2020. That case followed ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Death row inmate Benjamin Ritchie has filed a new lawsuit against leaders of the Indiana State Prison, demanding it allows him to have a spiritual adviser present during ...
Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs ...
Jennings was sentenced to death, while Graves received life in prison. A man sitting on death row for three brutal 1995 murders at a Naples Cracker Barrel has died of cancer. According to Florida ...