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Life after California’s death row: What happens when condemned inmates get a second chance
Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they ...
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 ...
Death Row Inmate’s Appeal of Texas DNA Procedure Fizzles Out
A death row inmate was unable to convince a federal appeals court that Texas’ post-conviction DNA-testing procedures violate his right to due process on Thursday.
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, ...
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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 — 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's ...
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New bill could bring back death by firing squad option for NC death row inmates
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers will discuss a bill Tuesday that would give death row inmates the option to choose between three execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution ...
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Death row executioner will ‘never forget’ one death that went so wrong prison had to change execution method
In what he now calls a 'wonderful career', he recalled moving to Florida State Prison, famous for holding the US state's death row inmates and for being the site where serial killer Ted Bundy was ...
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US Supreme Court Declines Review of Mississippi Death Row Inmate's Convictions in Killings of 8
US Supreme Court Declines Review of Mississippi Death Row Inmate's Convictions in Killings of 8 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Mississippi death row ...