Federal appeals court reverses Texas death row inmate’s conviction
A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to ...
Autopsy reveals that second South Carolina death row inmate died with fluid in his lungs
The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice ...
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Death row inmate set for nitrogen gas execution, his attorneys say it violates his 8th amendment right
Back when he was put on death row, the assumed execution method was a lethal injection, but those drugs have been hard to come by in recent years --leading to a backlog on death row and now the ...
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Louisiana death row inmate who is scheduled to die by nitrogen hypoxia challenges the method
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carr ...
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Federal appeals court reverses Texas death row inmate's 1998 murder conviction
Holberg has been on death row for 27 years. In securing her conviction in 1998, Randall County prosecutors heavily relied on testimony from a jail inmate who was working as a confidential ...
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Texas Inmate on Death Row for 27 Years Has Conviction Overturned
Khaleda Rahman is Newsweek's National Correspondent based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on education and national news. Khaleda joined Newsweek in 2019 and had previously worked at the ...
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Louisiana death row inmate pushes against nitrous hypoxia execution
FROM A JUDGE ON WHETHER THE USE OF GAS TO EXECUTE A DEATH ROW INMATE IS CONSTITUTIONAL. JESSE HOFFMAN IS ACCUSED OF RAPING AND KILLING A WOMAN NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO IN SAINT TAMMANY. AND THE CASE ...
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Mississippi death row inmate appeals sentence to U.S. Supreme Court
HARRISON COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate, filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court. Jordan, now 78 years old, wants the high court ...
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3 death row inmates hanged; 1st executions in 2 years
Japan carried out its first executions in two years on Dec. 21 by hanging three death row inmates, one of them a mass murderer, in Tokyo and Osaka Prefecture. Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa ...