Texas Standard17h
A sisterhood of nuns is quietly emerging on Texas death row
Those housed in the O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a ...
The New Yorker2d
The Ladies on Death Row
From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...
University of Georgia Wire5d
Helene death toll rises to 105 in North Carolina
The number of fatalities related to Tropical Storm Helene has risen to 105, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Jan. 29. The additional death occurred in Buncombe ...
Racial bias tainted jury selection and death sentence for a Black man in North Carolina, judge says
A North Carolina judge has ruled that racial bias tainted jury selection and sentencing in the trial of a Black inmate who ...
Latin Times on MSN5d
North Carolina Judge Rules Racial Bias Played a Role in Conviction of Black Man Who Spent 15 Years on Death Row
Judge ruled prosecutors unlawfully dismissed Black jurors in Hasson Bacote's death penalty case and used racist language like ...
North Carolina judge finds racial bias in landmark death penalty case
The Racial Justice Act allowed people to challenge their death sentences if they could demonstrate race played a role in ...
Tulsa World6d
OKC woman on death row says prosecutors sex shamed her; U.S. Supreme Court orders review
OKLAHOMA CITY — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in favor of convicted murderer Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, ordering a lower court to review whether she got a ...
Marion Bowman executed in South Carolina for young woman's 2001 murder: 'I'm innocent'
The state executed Bowman for the 2001 murder of 21-year-old Kandee Martin, a young mother who was killed five days before ...
Charlotte Observer15d
Trump wants mandatory death penalty trials. NC tried that and it failed | Opinion
The NC legislature retroactively applied the repeal to anyone on death row who had a capital resentencing trial, but it did not create a mechanism for everyone else to benefit from the repeal of ...
The Herald SC15d
McDonald’s worker killed woman entering restaurant, NC officials say. He gets prison
A McDonald’s employee is accused of killing a woman at a North Carolina restaurant ... to second-degree murder and gun crimes in the death of 30-year-old Jacklyn Reed. Prosecutors didn ...