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Life after California's death row: What happens when condemned inmates get a second chance
Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they ...
Mississippi sets an execution date for a man who’s been on death row since 1976
The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25.
Oscar Franklin Smith, Tennessee death row inmate, declines to select execution method
Smith, who was asked to choose between lethal injection and the electric chair, declined to pick, his attorney Kelley Henry, ...
After Biden commuted federal death row sentences, DAs are weighing state charges
A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...
Execution date set for man on Mississippi death row for nearly 50 years
Richard Gerald Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row since 1977. The state has set an execution date of June 25, saying ...
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Mississippi sets June execution date for longest-serving death row inmate
In a ruling Thursday, the state’s high court said Jordan had exhausted all state and federal appeals and set the execution ...
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In Louisiana, a Judge Just Vacated a Controversial Death Row Case
Chris Duncan’s longtime claims of innocence were boosted by the discrediting of bite mark analysis, and by recent reforms now ...
US Supreme Court declines review of Mississippi death row inmate's convictions in killings of 8
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, ...
Judge rules in Bryan Kohberger defense’s latest effort against death penalty
Defendant asked for ‘everything,’ and ‘everything’ is what he received,” the judge wrote. “Defendant cannot demand everything ...
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Mississippi Supreme Court sets execution date for man on death row since 1976
The Mississippi Supreme Court has set an execution date for the man who has been on the state’s death row longer than any other inmate. According to the court, the ...