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Supreme Court rules for Texas death row inmate seeking DNA testing to block execution

Ruben Gutierrez's lawyers say new evidence tests would help prove he was not responsible for the fatal stabbing of an 85-year-old woman in South Texas.

The New York Times · 7h

Supreme Court Sides With Death Row Prisoner Seeking DNA Testing

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman.

FOX 11 Los Angeles · 1d

Mississippi executes state's longest-serving death row inmate: What we know

The Associated Press reported that Richard Gerald Jordan is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, and he is one of several people on Mississippi's death row suing the state over its three-drug execution policy, which they assert is inhumane.

6hon MSN

Justice Thomas unloads on SCOTUS for handing death row inmates 'a tool for obstruction' that will worsen 'already egregious delays'

For Clarence Thomas, SCOTUS had "no business intervening" in Ruben Gutierrez's DNA case and, as a result, handed death row ...

Mississippi’s death row: A look at the 37 inmates, and the crimes they committed

Mississippi has 37 death row inmates and all but one are men. Richard Gerald Jordan, 79, is the longest-serving death row ...

Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for a woman's murder in 1976

Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for a woman's murder in 1976.

Woman who has watched nearly 300 executions explained moment she had to give it up

A woman who watched nearly 300 death row executions take place over 12 years opened up about how her macabre career impacted ...

WXXV News 2520h

Execution of Richard Jordan officially carried out

Richard Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate and the man convicted of killing a Gulfport woman back in 1976, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening at the Mississippi State ...

17hon MSN

Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state's death row for 1976 killing

Richard Gerald Jordan, the longest-serving man on Mississippi's death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after ...

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