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Death row inmate suffered “excruciating” death after last meal “mistake”
A death row inmate suffered an agonizing execution in 2020, hours after making a “mistake” relating to his last meal request.
On This Day: U.S. Supreme Court finds death penalty unconstitutional
On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...
Supreme Court rules Texas death row inmate can sue over state DNA testing laws
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...
Justices side with Texas death row inmate seeking DNA testing to show he shouldn't be executed
Last year, the high court granted Ruben Gutierrez a reprieve 20 minutes before he was to receive a lethal injection.
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Death row inmate from Riverside County killed in prison attack; mob attacks suspect – Redlands Daily Facts
A Riverside County death row inmate was allegedly killed by another prisoner at Kern Valley State Prison on Friday morning, June 6, sparking a violent mob assault involving more than 30 inmates, ...
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‘Frivolous attempt’: State responds to death row inmate filing another rehearing ahead of execution
Jordan is Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate. He was sentenced to death for the kidnapping and killing of Edwina Marter in 1976 in Harrison County, and has an execution date set for ...
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Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against accused FSU mass shooter - Tallahassee Democrat
State Attorney Jack Campbell confirmed that he intends to seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing two people and injuring five others in the April 17 mass shooting at Florida ...
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In death penalty cases, the quest for justice is not America’s highest value - The Conversation
Louisiana has a long and troubled death penalty history. From 1976 to 2015, 80% of the state’s capital sentences were reversed on appeal, and 12 people have been exonerated from its death row.
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After Biden commuted federal death row sentences, DAs are weighing state charges - NBC News
Several district attorneys have considered charging former death row prisoners whose sentences were commuted by former President Joe Biden months after a White House executive order called on them ...
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In Louisiana, a Judge Just Vacated a Controversial Death Row Case
In Louisiana, a Judge Just Vacated a Controversial Death Row Case Chris Duncan’s longtime claims of innocence were boosted by the discrediting of bite mark analysis, and by recent reforms now ...
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Notorious L.A. gang boss gets death penalty convictions overturned - Los Angeles Times
The California Supreme Court overturned the death penalty conviction of one of L.A.’s most notorious gang figures Thursday, saying a juror who likely would have spared Timothy McGhee from ...
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'Their victims are still dead': Renewed efforts to end Ohio's death penalty stalemate - WKRC
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The average time spent on Ohio’s death row is now 22 years, with death by natural causes or suicide far more likely than execution. Those facts were highlighted on Tuesday in ...