Nance appealed and a panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that since lethal injection is the only method of execution authorized by Georgia law, Nance was effectively challenging ...
Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...
A Texas man who murdered his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison system when he used a cellphone smuggled into death ...
The Supreme Court declined to issue a stay of execution or take up an appeal by James Ford. He is set to die by lethal ...
Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermon found race played a major role in the prosecution and sentencing of Hasson Bacote to the death penalty in 2009. Gov. Roy Cooper granted Bacote clemency on Dec. 31, ...
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...
The ruling in the first Racial Justice Act evidentiary hearing in more than a decade will have implications for the death ...
Death row inmates in North Carolina may be resentenced after a judge ruled last week that Hasson Bacote's capital trial was ...
On Friday, a Johnston County judge found that race played a significant role in the death penalty trial of Hasson Bacote, ...
Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial ...
House Judiciary Committee Chairperson Bruce “Firing” Skaug, R-Nampa, may succeed in getting more people executed in the Gem ...