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 ...
Texas execution of 'desert killer,' on death row for 30 years, blocked by court
David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly ...
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 ...
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 ...
Death Row inmate deserves new trial, ex-US Senator, former Alabama AG urge in ‘unusual’ request
In a brief filed Wednesday, 10 former Alabama prosecutors signed on asking a Jefferson County judge to grant a new trial 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 ...
Bill to repeal death penalty in Pa. gets bipartisan support in Legislature
The measure would remove the death penalty as a sentencing option, leaving life imprisonment without the possibility of ...
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What to know about the death penalty and death row in Texas
As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted in 2008 of beating to death her 2-year-old daughter. In 2022 ...