Supreme Court Will Hear Appeal of Black Death Row Inmate Over Racial Bias in Mississippi Jury Makeup

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a Black death row inmate from Mississippi whose case was handled by a ...

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Wednesday's scheduled execution of a Cobb death row inmate has been suspended as the State Board of Pardons and Paroles ...

Supreme Court to hear death row inmate’s challenge of racial bias in jury selection

The Supreme Court announced on Monday it will take up a death row inmate’s challenge over allegations that the dismissal of ...

Ohio man who spent decades on death row for murder has his case dismissed

The case has been dropped against a man who spent a quarter-century on death row for the robbery and murder of a New Jersey ...

Gov. Mike DeWine can end Ohio’s death row limbo with one act of clemency: Leila Atassi

Ohio’s stalled death penalty exposes the false promise of finality and the irreversible danger of wrongful executions, making ...

Supreme Court Grapples With Death Penalty Case on Intellectual Disability

The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results ...

Supreme Court wrestles with death penalty in cases of intellectual disabilities

The justices wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new ...

Maxwell: On Florida’s death row for half a century, Zeigler case remains fatally flawed

Maxwell: The jury didn’t believe Tommy Zeigler should be executed. A judge ordered him to die anyway. 50 years later, new DNA ...

US Supreme Court wrestles with death row inmate's intellectual disability ruling

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with a bid by Alabama officials to ...
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Eight Reasons to Oppose the Death Penalty This Hanukkah

To the Esteemed Members of the Knesset, For each of the eight nights of Hanukkah this year, we, the thousands of members ...

These 5 counties pack Alabama’s Death Row despite death penalty declining

The use of capital punishment has steadily declined in the United States since its peak in 1996, when 315 death sentences were imposed. That number had fallen to 26 by 2024. Alabama’s yearly death ...

Georgia parole board suspends death row inmate’s execution after last-minute clemency application

Ahead of his execution, Humphreys, 52, requested a gluttonous spread chock full of southern classics with a dash of fast-food for his final meal — which went viral online.