Once filled with rage, Texas death row inmate set to be executed is now 'a gentle human'
During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...
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Arson is not equal to murder: California Supreme Court should overturn death row verdict | Opinion
Raymond Lee Oyler set a fire that killed five firefighters in 2006. The California Supreme Court will decide if he remains on death row, writes Robin Epley of The Sacramento Bee.
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The Prisoner Who Planted a Church on Death Row
Every week, behind a half dozen security doors that lead to Unit 2—Tennessee’s death row—Kevin Burns holds a worship service. He leads Communion, prayer, liturgy, and a sermon with men who share his ...
Repatriated Frenchman's Indonesia death sentence commuted to 30 years in prison
A French court commuted the sentence of Serge Atlaoui, who was allowed to return to France last week after 18 years on death ...
Oklahoma death row inmate Wendell Arden Grissom denied clemency
The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday voted 4-1 to deny clemency to a death row inmate who said last month he is ...
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The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
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French court commutes Frenchman's Indonesia death sentence to 30 years
A Frenchman reprieved after 18 years on death row in Indonesia on drug offences will have to serve 30 years in jail after ...
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The Ladies on Death Row
From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...
Prisoner whose case led to Iowa's rejection of death penalty dies in prison
Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital punishment in 1965.
Prosecutors drop death sentence of gang leader in bungled case. Pleads to lesser charge
One of Miami’s most notorious gang leaders, who for more than two decades sat on Death Row after four murder convictions, not ...
Alabama puts man to death for a 1991 murder in the nation’s fourth execution using nitrogen gas
An man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in ...
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After decades of seeking death, Aaron Gunches will be executed March 18
Arizona Supreme Court sets March 11 execution date for Aaron Gunches, who killed a man in 2002 and has spent years fighting ...