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The Most Commonly Requested Meals Inmates Ask For Before Leaving This Mortal Coil
Humans are perhaps more alike than they are different, even when it comes to last meal requests. Here's what people on death row have asked to eat.
Utah death row inmate with dementia faces firing squad execution in September, judge says
Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in ...
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Local editor collaborates with death row inmate on book of writing prompts
George Wilkerson and Kat Bodrie share a unique relationship. Wilkinson is an inmate on North Carolina’s death row. Bodrie is ...
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Inside an Atlanta prison classroom, inmates receive college credits and the rarest commodity of all: Hope
Winfield Ward Murray provides Burruss Correctional Training Center inmates with access to higher education as part of a partnership between Morehouse, the Andrew Young Center’s Higher Education in ...
Executions in Saudi Arabia reach a record high mostly over drug cases, Amnesty says
Executions in Saudi Arabia surged last year to a record high, Amnesty International said Monday, as activists increasingly warn about the kingdom’s use of the death penalty in nonviolent drug cases.