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Critics blast DeSantis for ramping up Florida death row scheduled executions ahead of 2024
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 11 months agoFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis is poised to execute a fifth man on death row within six months, ramping...
Final appeals pending, Thomas Creech set for Idaho’s first execution in almost 12 years
Idaho Statesman via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe debate over the death penalty has come to Idaho for the first time in almost a dozen years....
Oprah picks California death row inmate's autobiography for book club
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOprah Winfrey has chosen a California death row inmate’s autobiography — in which he proclaims his innocence — as her influential book club’s next read, she announced Tuesday. The move was sure ...
Jedidiah Murphy and the evolving debate on mental illness and capital punishment
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSome states have abolished the death penalty. California has a moratorium but holds the most people on death row. Texas, where Murphy is held, has carried out five executions so far this year.
He faces execution. His lawyers may have earned less than $4 an hour
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 months agoBrian Dorsey’s argument for why he should not be executed by the state of Missouri requires the kind...
Arizona prisoner to die by lethal injection, not gas chamber
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn Arizona prisoner who is scheduled to be executed in three weeks for two 1980 killings will be put...
Alabama's summer 2022 legal lynching
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Alabama Tourism Department prominently notes on its website that “with more than 6 million visitors each year, our eight Alabama Welcome Centers...
What it’s like on death row: Possible future for Parkland school killer
South Florida Sun Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The two prisons that house men on Florida’s death row stand on a pleasant two-lane road that runs past farms and cow pastures about 30 miles north of Gainesville. Union ...
Idaho inmate nearing execution wants a new clemency hearing. The last one was a tie
Associated Press via AOL· 4 months agoAn Idaho man scheduled to be executed at the end of the month is asking a federal court to put his...
Stopping Alabama's addiction to torture
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 11 months agoAlabama’s addiction to torturing poor people — disproportionately Black and brown people, and more often than not, people who are severely mentally ill —...
