Former boxer who served world's longest sentence on death row …
WEB20 hours ago · After a long fight for justice led by his sister, 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was on Thursday declared innocent of the quadruple murder that he spent 46 years on death row for.
Marcellus Williams execution brings fresh scrutiny to Supreme …
WEB2 days ago · CNN — The Supreme Court’s divided decision this week allowing Missouri to execute a man for a 1998 murder even though his conviction was contested by prosecutors has heaped renewed scrutiny on the...
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WEBNov 17, 2017 · This page will be updated at 12 noon (Eastern Time) each day to reflect executions that occurred in the previous 24 hours. Please scroll over each state on the above map to see the number of active and inactive death warrants, as well as …
SC inmate is executed by lethal injection, 2 days after ... - Yahoo News
WEBSep 20, 2024 · Owens, 46, died 25 years after he was convicted of killing gas station clerk Irene Graves, a 41-year-old single mother of three, during a string of robberies on Halloween night 1997. A single shot...
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WEB5 days ago · The Center also produces groundbreaking reports on various issues related to the death penalty such as arbitrariness, costs, innocence, and race. Live Updates: Alabama Executes Alan Miller, 1600th Person Executed in Modern Era of the Death Penalty
Alabama puts to death Kenneth Smith in first known execution …
WEBJan 25, 2024 · Alabama on Thursday night executed Kenneth Smith, the first death row inmate known to die by nitrogen gas, marking the emergence of a wholly new method of execution in the United States...
Alabama nitrogen gas execution reignites US ... - Associated Press News
WEBJan 26, 2024 · Alabama executed convicted murderer Smith with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again placed the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over capital punishment. Smith was convicted of the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler) Read More. 7 of 11 |.
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WEBJan 26, 2024 · Former death row inmates who were exonerated, from left, Randall Padgent, Gary Drinkard and Ron Wright, were among the nearly one hundred protestors gathered at the state capitol building in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday Jan. 23, 2024, to ask Governor Kay Ivey to stop the planned execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith.
Alabama death row inmate James Barber executed following ... - NBC News
WEBJul 21, 2023 · Alabama death row inmate James Barber was executed early Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a stay over fears that he could be subject to “substantial harm"...
Supreme Court Stays Execution of Death Row Inmate Richard …
WEBMay 5, 2023 · WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court granted a stay of execution on Friday to Richard Glossip, a death row inmate in Oklahoma, after the state’s attorney general, Gentner F. Drummond, a Republican,...