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Louisiana death row inmate who is scheduled to die by nitrogen hypoxia challenges the method
A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more humane method.
Tennessee's death row has been on hold for five years. Four inmates are now scheduled to die.
Four people are now set for execution in 2025 after years of Tennessee pausing its execution process for death penalty cases.
Louisiana's oldest death row inmate dies less than month before execution date
Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a result of complications arising from his pre-existing medical conditions," according to the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections.
South Carolina death row inmate to be executed by firing squad, first in US in 15 years
A man convicted of a double murder is scheduled to be executed in South Carolina Friday night by firing squad - a method that has not been used in the United States in almost 15 years, and never in the state.
Louisiana execution recharges debate on death by nitrogen gas
A death row inmate slated to become the first person to be put to death by nitrogen gas in Louisiana is seeking to halt the execution, citing constitutional concerns over the controversial killing method.
South Carolina kills death-row prisoner in state's first firing squad execution
Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...
South Carolina death row inmate to be executed by firing squad for first time in 15 years
CNN’s Ryan Young reports 67-year-old Brad Sigmon, who was convicted of a double murder, is scheduled to be executed in South ...
'I'm angry': Death Row inmate David Leonard Wood says he's innocent as execution nears
Wood's conviction of the murders of six women and girls in El Paso, Texas in 1987 was largely based on circumstantial ...
How Did Charles Manson Die? Inside the Cult Leader's Life in Prison — and How He Avoided Death Row Despite His Gruesome Crimes
Charles Manson died while serving nine life sentences in 2017 — nearly 50 years after masterminding the 1969 killings of ...
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Pedophile, Murderer, Wants Death Row Reprieve Because of Health Problems
A death row inmate convicted of killing and raping an 8-year-old before murdering her grandmother in 1993 is asking Florida not to execute him on March 20, citi ...
Texas Death Row inmate David Wood 'Desert Killer' maintains innocence days before execution
Thirty-seven years to the day, the state of Texas is set to execute Wood for the killing of six of those victims, who bodies ...
Alabama Death Row inmate Toforest Johnson’s lawyers push for new trial after Steve Marshall’s ‘alarming’ actions
Toforest Johnson has always maintained his innocence, and the DA is unsure of his conviction. But Alabama Attorney General ...
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He’s had three ‘last meals’ on Oklahoma’s death row. The Supreme Court has now tossed his conviction
A death row inmate in Oklahoma who has been scheduled for execution nine separate times and been fed three “last meals” has ...
Salisbury Post19h
Former Connecticut governor: NC must confront racism in the death penalty
By Dannel Malloy As a former prosecutor, mayor, governor of Connecticut and a member of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty, I have spent much of my career in and around the ...