5 Executions Mark Biggest Week of Capital Punishment in the U.S. in Decades
The unusually high number of executions defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty ...
Back to death row? Retrial verdict due in Japan murder saga
The world's longest-serving death row prisoner hears from a Japanese court on Thursday if he will again face execution or ...
There are 5 executions set over a week's span in the US. That's the most in decades
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually ...
Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed’s team argues for additional DNA testing in 5th Circuit
Read more The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments Monday on two issues pursued by death row ...
A death row inmate set to die tomorrow might be innocent, prosecutor says. Now a high court is considering his case
One day before he’s scheduled to be executed, a Missouri death row inmate could learn whether his fate will change after the ...
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Missouri Supreme Court rejects death row inmate’s appeal, allowing execution Tuesday
The execution of Marcellus Williams will proceed Tuesday, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled in a decision rejecting efforts to ...
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Missouri Death Row Inmate Claims Racial Bias, Seeks to Stop Execution
Attorneys for Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams argued before the court Monday that Williams did not receive a fair criminal ...
Who's next? The state could execute another death row inmate in five weeks
The State Department of Corrections could carry out another execution as early as late october after south carolina’s first ...