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Noteworthy and influential people who've died this year
Other notable death in April include basketball Hall of Famer Dick Barnett, “Dennis the Menace” star Jay North, former ...
Execution date set for man who's been on death row since 1976
The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25 ...
Execution date set for man on Mississippi death row for nearly 50 years
Richard Gerald Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row since 1977. The state has set an execution date of June 25, saying ...
Oscar Franklin Smith, Tennessee death row inmate, declines to select execution method
Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled to die on May 22, declined to select a method meaning it ...
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Mississippi sets June execution date for longest-serving death row inmate
In a ruling Thursday, the state’s high court said Jordan had exhausted all state and federal appeals and set the execution ...
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State's Longest Death-Row Inmate Gets an Execution Date
Mississippi's Supreme Court has set June 25 as the execution date for Richard Gerald Jordan, the state's longest-serving ...
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US Supreme Court declines review of Mississippi death row inmate's convictions in killings of 8
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, including his mother-in-law and a deputy sheriff JACKSON, Miss.
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Louisiana death row conviction overturned as man’s lawyers cite faulty forensic analysis
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana man who has spent nearly three decades on death row has had his conviction overturned by a district judge following a review of forensic analysis that the inmate ...