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GOP Kentucky attorney general wants to end state’s death penalty ban
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo News· 3 months agoKentucky has not executed a person in more than 15 years. Attorney General Russell Coleman wants to...
The death penalty has a racist past. In SC, evidence shows that hasn't changed.
Greenville News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThirty-five men sit on South Carolina’s death row while the state enters civil litigation to...
Racist Facebook comments become key issue in Northern Kentucky death penalty case
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 3 months agoThere are questions in a Northern Kentucky death penalty case as to whether John Gentry, a Black man...
Joseph Thornton: Execution of mentally ill prisoners does nothing to make us safer
The Florida Times-Union via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe death penalty is a divisive issue that has well-meaning people arguing for similar goals but by...
Florida man Michael Zack has been executed, marking 6th execution in state in 2023
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 8 months agoPENSACOLA, Fla. – Michael Duane Zack, the Florida man on death row for robbing, sexually assaulting,...
Louisville tragedy is at least the 146th mass shooting in the United States this year
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA gunman opened fire in a downtown Louisville bank Monday morning, killing at least five people and...
James Barnes, Florida man who dropped appeals, executed for 1988 hammer killing of nurse
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 10 months agoMELBOURNE, Fla. — Florida death row inmate James Barnes, who confessed to killing his estranged...
Commentary: Death penalty persists despite proven cruelty and injustice
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThis column appears every other week in Foster’s Daily Democrat and the Tuskegee News. This week,...
Exoneration in 1987 Kentucky murder leads to record-setting $28M settlement
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAfter decades of insisting its police officers arrested the right man in a 1987 stabbing death, the...
Live updates: Florida killer Michael Zack has been executed.
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA drifter from Tallahassee who killed two women in the Florida Panhandle during a crime spree in...