Bungled Evidence Dashes Hopes of Exoneration for Man on Missouri Death Row
Marcellus Williams, the Missouri death row inmate who had hoped that DNA evidence on the murder weapon would prove his innocence, dropped...
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Crime and Justice News
- May 31
- 1 min
Judge To Reconsider Death Sentence for Killer of Polly Klaas
On Friday, a California judge will review the possibility of rescinding the death sentence for Richard Allen Davis, who was convicted of...
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Crime and Justice News
- May 3
- 1 min
Kentucky Judge Won’t Lift Ban on Executions -- Yet
Though Kentucky's attorney general has called for a restart to executions, Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd, whose order...
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Crime and Justice News
- May 3
- 1 min
Alabama Supreme Court Grants Request For Second Gas Execution
Alabama has authorized the execution of a second inmate by nitrogen gas, months after the state became the first state to put a person to...
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Crime and Justice News
- Apr 18
- 1 min
Study: Black Prisoners Face Higher Rate of Botched Executions
An anti-death penalty group found that lethal injections of Black people in the United States were botched more than twice as often as...
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Crime and Justice News
- Apr 9
- 1 min
'Rehabilitated' Death-Row Inmate Scheduled for Execution Today
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson rejected death-penalty clemency for Brian Dorsey, a 52-year-old man convicted in the December 2006...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 22
- 1 min
Alabama: Activists Push to Resentence Some on Death Row
Activists held a rally Thursday outside the Alabama Statehouse urging lawmakers to pass a bill that would allow the re-sentencing of...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 23
- 1 min
Critics Raise Doubts On Nitrogen Execution Planned in Alabama
Alabama, unless stopped by the courts, intends to strap inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney and use a gas mask to replace breathable...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 28, 2023
- 1 min
Florida Increased Use Of Capital Punishment In 2023
Florida increased and expanded its use of the death penalty in 2023 and is one of five states that regularly impose capital punishment,...
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Crime and Justice News
- Nov 29, 2023
- 1 min
Alabama Judge Resigns After Being Suspended Twice
Tracie Todd, an Alabama judge who was twice suspended from the bench since 2021 and convicted last year of violating judicial ethics, has...
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Crime and Justice News
- Nov 10, 2023
- 2 min
Texas Executes Brent Brewer For 1990 Murder
The state of Texas executed Brent Brewer, who spent three decades on death row on Thursday evening for the 1990 murder of Robert...
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Crime and Justice News
- Nov 8, 2023
- 2 min
Half Of Americans Think Death Penalty Is Unfairly Applied
More Americans think the death penalty is applied unfairly as opposed to fairly, the first time that this Gallup polling result has...
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Crime and Justice News
- Oct 27, 2023
- 1 min
Texas Court Grants Reprieve to Death Row Inmate Hours Before Execution
In Texas, the state’s top criminal appeals court stayed the execution of inmate William Speer, 49, less than five hours before his...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jul 21, 2023
- 2 min
Executions Resume, But Longer Trend Still Points Down
If 2022 was, in the words of the Death Penalty Information Center, "the year of botched executions," then 2023 marks a return to...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jul 14, 2023
- 2 min
What Explains Different DOJ Death Penalty Decisions?
In two different mass shootings, each killing more than 10 people based on racist reasons, the Department of Justice authorized the death...
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Crime and Justice News
- Jan 27, 2023
- 2 min
TX Sued Over Death Row Solitary Confinement
More than 23 years after Texas began strict isolation for its death-sentenced prisoners, and less than a week after the latest death-row...
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Crime and Justice News
- Mar 4, 2022
- 1 min
Court Reinstates Tsarnaev Death Penalty
The U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death sentence for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, reversing an appeals court...
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Crime and Justice News
- Dec 31, 2021
- 2 min
High Court Test for Late Evidence of Innocence
Although the current question before the Supreme Court in an Arizona death-penalty case is highly technical, the decision could have...
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