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 ...
Louisiana’s Jewish community protests nitrogen gas death row executions, seeing a link to ‘the decimation of our people’
A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...
Death row inmate to be executed after court overturns injunction
The United State Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has sided with Attorney General Liz Murrill’s Office in overturning ...
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From New Orleans parking worker to death row: See timeline of Jessie Hoffman's murder case
Louisiana is set to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman on March 18 using nitrogen gas, the state's first time using the ...
Federal appellate court vacates Texas death row inmate’s murder conviction
State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...
Prosecutors to seek death penalty for husband in South Florida triple murder
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Nathan Gingles, the man accused of killing his wife, her father and an ...
Autopsy reveals that second South Carolina death row inmate died with fluid in his lungs
The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice ...
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Bryan Kohberger defense looks to Daybell ruling in Idaho in push against death penalty
Bryan Kohberger’s defense team is employing a legal argument used successfully in another high-profile Idaho murder case in ...
Hearing date set for death row inmate Nikko Jenkins to dismiss conviction appeal
A Nebraska death row inmate who penned a motion expressing his wishes to dismiss past conviction appeals has a hearing date ...
Texas Inmate on Death Row for 27 Years Has Conviction Overturned
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the conviction and death sentence of Brittany Holberg, who was 25 when she was ...
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Bill would get rid of death penalty in Pennsylvania
Legislation proposed by a Susquehanna Valley lawmaker would abolish the death penalty in Pennsylvania. House Bill 888 would remove the death penalty as an option for punishment for first-degree murder ...
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Stay granted for Texas death row inmate two days before scheduled execution
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did not clarify why it halted the execution of David Wood in its order granting the stay.