Tennessee's death row inmates sue to stop lethal injection protocol: 'A torturous death'
Nine inmates on Tennessee’s death row have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new lethal injection protocol citing a ...
Woman on Death Row for 30 Years Has Conviction Overturned After Paid Informant’s Testimony Challenged
The murder conviction for a Texas woman who'd been on death row for decades was thrown out last week after a federal appeals ...
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Death penalty decision was 'arbitrary' says attorneys for Buffalo mass shooting gunman
Team, Gendron's attorneys argue "The government's decision to seek the death penalty against Payton Gendron is arbitrary." ...
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Religion is baked into Louisiana's death penalty practices, but executions divide faith leaders
Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...
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Capital sentencing upheld for state’s longest-held death row inmate
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WYMT) - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the capital sentence of Kentucky’s ...
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Firing up the chamber of death
"Why do we kill people who may have killed people to show that killing people is wrong?" human-rights lawyer Clive Stafford ...
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Death penalty cases have a tangled history in Chester County
Since 1978, when capital punishment was approved by the state Legislature after having been dormant since a state Supreme ...
Death penalty protestors gather outside of Governor’s Mansion
Advocates against the death penalty from across the state and country showed up in front of the Governor’s Mansion this ...
Prosecutors decide against death penalty for parents accused of murdering 7-year-old
Prosecutors won't say why they withdrew their intent to seek the death penalty against a couple accused of murdering their ...