Why new Attorney General Pam Bondi is going all in on the federal death penalty
Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after ...
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Supreme Court to consider death row plea for DNA testing
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain postconviction DNA testing on evidence that he says would exonerate him. Rube ...
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Death Penalty Fast Facts
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 ...
Old and unrelated footage falsely linked to DR Congo death row inmates
Congolese authorities announced that over 170 prisoners on death row over armed robberies would be executed. A recent video on TikTok purportedly shows the alleged convicts before, during and after ...
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Former death row prisoners may be heading to ‘Alcatraz of the Rockies’
U.S. authorities are preparing to transfer former federal death row prisoners — currently held ... one of whom the former Trump administration executed in 2021. That administration carried ...
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2024 was not a good year for death row inmates seeking mercy
On Dec. 19, Kevin Ray Underwood became the last person executed in 2024. Oklahoma put him to death for the 2006 murder of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Rolin. Six days earlier, the Oklahoma Pardon and ...