Despite Biden Vow to End Federal Executions, DOJ Still Presses Hard
Joe Biden was the first U.S. president to campaign on a pledge to end the death penalty, but he and his administration, and his attorney...
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- 4 days ago
- 2 min
Court Refuses to Lift Arizona Governor's Execution Moratorium
Avoiding a separation-of-powers clash, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that it cannot force Gov. Katie Hobbs to carry out an execution...
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Crime and Justice News
- 6 days ago
- 2 min
Arizona Courts Under Criticism After Justices' Death Penalty Rulings
Back-to-back U.S. Supreme Court rulings have put Arizona's death penalty under the microscope and could have far-reaching implications...
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Crime and Justice News
- 6 days ago
- 2 min
Idaho Ok's Firing Squads As Alternative To Lethal Injections
Firing squads to execute condemned inmates when the state can’t get lethal-injection drugs has been suggested by the state of Idaho,...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 15
- 2 min
AZ Prosecutor, Crime Victims Ask Court To Order Killer's Execution
The Arizona Supreme Court is fast-tracking a decision on whether to order Gov. Katie Hobbs to carry out the execution of a murder...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 10
- 2 min
In Week's Second Execution, Texas Puts Killer Of Four To Death
Texas executed Arthur Brown, Jr., an inmate convicted of the drug-related killings of four people more than 30 years ago, including a...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 9
- 2 min
Idaho Favors Firing Squads, Other States Divide On Death Penalty
Idaho wants to bring back the firing squad. The state House last week approved a bill that would allow the execution method as an...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 8
- 1 min
Texas Executes Man Who Killed His Estranged Wife, Daughter
Gary Green, a Texas inmate convicted of fatally stabbing his estranged wife and drowning her 6-year-old daughter in a bathtub was...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 6
- 2 min
VA Refuses To Make Public More Audio Tapes Of Executions
On a 1989 audio recording, an inmate is barely audible as he offers his last words before he is executed in Virginia’s electric chair. “I...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 3
- 2 min
Mitigation Specialists, On the Hunt for Signs of Humanity
It took a jury all of 16 minutes to recommend the death penalty for the rape and murder James Bernard Belcher committed in Jacksonville,...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 24
- 2 min
Florida Execution For 1990 Stabbing State's First In Nearly Four Years
Florida executed a man on Thursday for murdering a woman in 1990 after he escaped from prison, stabbing her to death in a shopping mall...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 23
- 2 min
High Court: AZ Death Row Inmate Can Tell Jurors About Life Term
A divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that an Arizona death row inmate was wrongly denied the right to tell jurors he would never get...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 22
- 2 min
Media Protest Exclusion From NYC Bike-Path Killing Death Penalty Case
A federal judge barred the general public and media from a courtroom where defense lawyers claim emotional testimony from victims has...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 17
- 2 min
Alabama Set to Use Nitrogen in Executions by Year's End
Alabama is close to completing a protocol for using nitrogen gas as a new form of execution in the state, fueling warnings from advocacy...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 13
- 2 min
DOJ Policy In Capital Punishment Cases Called Inconsistent
Critics say that the Justice Department’s different approaches in a pair of mass-killing cases show that the Biden administration has...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 9
- 1 min
Texas Executes Killer Who Said Trial Was Affected By Racial Bias
John Balentine, a man convicted of killing three teenagers while they slept in a Texas home more than 25 years ago, was executed on...
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