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After Melissa Lucio's Stay of Execution Her Case Remains ‘Far From the Finish Line'
Melissa Lucio, a Texas mother of 14, has been on death row since 2008 after she was convicted of killing her 2-year-old daughter. Her execution was delayed just two days before she was scheduled to die to allow a lower court to review new evidence — including arguments that her confession was coerced. Molly Parmer, a criminal defense attorney who...
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Live Updates: Jury Selection Continues in Parkland School Shooter Penalty Trial
More than four years after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, the procedure to determine the gunman’s fate is has begun with jury selection.
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Lawyers Hope New Evidence Can Stop Execution of Texas Woman Convicted of Killing Daughter
During hours of relentless questioning, Melissa Lucio more than 100 times had denied fatally beating her 2-year-old daughter.
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Supreme Court Reimposes Death Sentence for Boston Marathon Bomber
The Supreme Court ruled Friday to reimpose the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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California Moves to Dismantle Nation's Largest Death Row
California, which last carried out an execution in 2006, is one of 28 states that maintain death rows, along with the U.S. government
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Oklahoma Death Row Inmates Seek Firing Squad as Alternative to Lethal Injection
An attorney for two Oklahoma death row inmates facing executions in the coming months offered firing squad as a less problematic alternative to the state’s three-drug lethal injection.
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Doctors Question Sedative Dose After Man Convulsed and Vomited During Oklahoma Execution
Medical experts say it’s unclear why an Oklahoma inmate began convulsing and vomiting after the first of three drugs used to execute him was administered
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Alabama Man Put to Death for 1991 Killing of Woman
Willie B. Smith III, who avoided execution in February, has been put to death for the 1991 killing of a woman abducted during a robbery and then shot in a cemetery.
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Idaho Prosecutors Will Seek Death Penalty Against Chad Daybell, Charged With Killing Wife's 2 Kids
Daybell was also charged in his previous wife’s death. Court documents filed Thursday revealed that the Fremont County Prosecutor’s Office will seek the death penalty in that case as well.
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Date Set for Supreme Court to Hear Boston Marathon Bomber Death Penalty Case
The Supreme Court will hear arguments this fall over whether Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev can be put to death.
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Supreme Court Rules Against Inmate in Death Penalty Case
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against an Alabama inmate whose lawyers argued he had ineffective counsel at his trial.
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DOJ Seeks to Reinstate Death Penalty for Boston Marathon Bomber
Despite President Joe Biden’s public opposition to capital punishment, his administration supported an appeal first filed by his predecessor in a 48-page brief filed with the Supreme Court.
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South Carolina House Adds Firing Squad to Execution Methods
The South Carolina House has voted to add the firing squad to the state’s execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs
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Virginia, With 2nd-Most Executions, Outlaws Death Penalty
Virginia has become the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty
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Executioners Downplayed Inmates' Reactions to Controversial Lethal Injection Drug
An Associated Press review of court filings shows executioners who put 13 inmates to death during the Trump presidency offered sanitized, incomplete versions of the executions to judges
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Alabama Seeks to Be 1st State to Execute an Inmate This Year
Alabama would be the first state to carry out an execution this year if it wins final court approval to go ahead with plans to put to death a man convicted of murder
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82 Advocacy Groups Are Calling on Biden to End Federal Executions
Dozens of civil rights and advocacy organizations are calling on the Biden administration to immediately halt federal executions after an unprecedented run of capital punishment under President Donald Trump
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Big Challenge: Biden Is Pressed to End Federal Death Penalty
Joe Biden is the first sitting president to openly oppose the death penalty, and officials say he’s discussed the possibility of instructing the Justice Department to stop scheduling new executions.
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Trump Administration Carries Out 13th and Final Execution
The Trump administration has carried out its 13th and final federal execution, five days before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in
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1st US Execution of Female Inmate in 67 Years Halted
A judge has granted a stay in what was slated to be the U.S. government’s first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades — a Kansas woman who killed an expectant mother in Missouri, cut the baby from her womb and passed off the newborn as her own.