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The Reform movement’s Washington-based advocacy arm is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi not to seek the death penalty for ...
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Missy was pronounced dead in May after being found unresponsive at her home in Tallahassee’s Southwood neighborhood. Her ...
What Pope Francis' death penalty reversal means for Trump and capital punishment globally News from Vatican comes as US government looks to expand use of death penalty Chris Riotta New York ...
When the Supreme Court revived capital punishment in 1976, just four years after de facto abolishing it, the justices effectively took ownership of the American death penalty and all its ...
One allows the death penalty in child rape convictions, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning capital punishment in such cases. The other law ends a unanimous jury requirement in death ...
Foreign defendants are rarely sent to the United States if they might face death, and America’s use of capital punishment has ...
In the 1950s and ‘60s, capital punishment sunk to unprecedentedly low levels of popularity. Between 1968 and 1976, not a single person was executed in the United States.
Houston's reputation as ground zero for the death penalty, it seems, is well-earned - even though prosecutors have been less apt to dole out capital sentences in recent years.
On his final day in office in December, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper issued clemency to 15 people on death row. The N&O ...