Adjusted for inflation in 2015, that means prosecutors seeking the death penalty cost Americans another $1.15 million, making these cases 1.4 to 1.5 times more expensive. The chart below ...
[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The state of Tennessee has filed orders to reset execution dates for death row inmates Byron Black, ...
This bill gives defendants a chance to present evidence of intellectual disability at a pretrial hearing. If found guilty at ...
Iowa lawmakers reconsidered the discussion Wednesday on whether or not the state should restore the death penalty for certain crimes. The bill, Senate File 320, that advanced out of a Senate ...
Melly could be sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury — a practice with deep roots in Jim Crow — if convicted in a double homicide.