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How the U.S. Turned Away From the Death Penalty and Toward ‘Death by Incarceration’
People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole as of 2024, data shows. But ...
Death Row Inmate Marion Bowman, Who Refused Plea Deal, to Be Executed
Bowman is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. on Friday at a Columbia, South Carolina prison for the killing of 21-year-old ...
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Texas legislators seek more protections for death penalty defendants in wake of Trump executive order
Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...
Ohio lawmakers make new play to end the death penalty: Ban state-funded abortions, too
Ohio lawmakers plan to introduce a bill that would end the death penalty and prohibit state funding for abortions and ...
LA Times Today: Oscar-nominated short documentary explores Texas death penalty case
A new short documentary explores the life of death-row prisoner John Henry Ramirez before he was executed in 2022. “I Am ...
South Carolina death row inmate maintains his innocence and won’t ask for clemency
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled ...
Senator presents death penalty ban to judiciary committee
Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty and other organizations presented testimony at a public hearing at the State Capitol and submitted a constitutional amendment to the voters to ban capital ...
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Mother of murderer urges Gov. Whitmer to rescue son from Alabama’s death penalty
Supporters of Demetrius Frazier, a Michigan prisoner facing execution in Alabama, are asking Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to ...
Ohio is Testing Radical Strategy To End Death Penalty
The proposal would link capital punishment abolishment with prohibitions on state funding for abortion or physician-assisted ...
Legislation to prohibit death penalty popular at legislature hearing
Lawmakers held a hearing for two different pieces of legislation that would change the death penalty. LR15CA is a constitutional amendment that would get rid of the death penalty. LB432 is a bill that ...
State weighing death penalty for suspected murderer of Cuban reggaeton star El Taiger
Fans gather in Hialeah after the October death of Cuban reggaeton star El Taiger, whose real name is Jose Manuel Carvajal ...
Death row inmate opts not to appeal to SC governor for mercy
Marion Bowman has decided not to seek clemency from South Carolina’s governor, guaranteeing he will face the death chamber ...