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Republicans are pushing to expand the death penalty
Salon.com· 2 days agoDeath penalty states want the Supreme Court to throw out its precedents and allow the execution of child rapists
A Black teen was wrongfully executed for murdering a White woman in 1931. Now, his family is suing...
CNN.com· 7 hours agoIn 1931, Alexander McClay Williams became the youngest person tobe executed in Pennsylvania, when...
Death Penalty Sought Again For 88-year-old In Japan Murder Saga
International Business Times· 5 days agoJapanese prosecutors again sought the death penalty in the retrial on Wednesday of an ex-boxer who...
Jurors to decide whether man who killed 5 women in 2019 at Sebring bank gets death penalty
WTSP-TV Tampa· 6 days agoZephen Xaver walked into a central Florida bank in 2019, fatally shot five women and then called...
Tear down Stateville and Logan prisons. Then, let's find ways to reduce our bloated prison...
Chicago Sun-Times· 3 hours agoIn March, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced plans to tear down Stateville Correctional Center, the men’s prison in Crest Hill, and Logan Correctional Center, the women’s prison in Lincoln. Illinois ...
Missouri veteran facing June execution reflects on murder case, family and faith
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoDavid Hosier sat down with The Star for an interview at Potosi Correctional Center. The 69 year old...
LA House panel votes to keep nitrogen gas as execution method despite Jewish community's opposition
New Orleans Times-Picayune· 5 days agoThe Louisiana House Administration of Criminal Justice on Tuesday rejected 8-3 a bill that would...
Newsom leaves Vatican with pope's praise for refusing to impose death penalty
Fairfield-Suisun Daily Republic· 6 days agoNewsom traveled more than 6,000 miles from California to the Vatican to give a speech before – and...
Wrongly convicted man survived 23 years on death row knowing he was innocent
UNILAD· 2 days agoSherwood Brown spent 23 years of his life on Mississippi death row for crimes he did not commit. How...
Redding man charged in Bella Vista triple homicide eligible for death penalty, DA says
Redding Record Searchlight via Yahoo News· 2 days agoDetectives obtained evidence that tied Merryman to the three deaths. They did not say what evidence tied him to the killings. Merryman, who had an arrest warrant for violating ...