Death Penalty

politics / 7 months ago
In 1996, a jury recommended 11-1 that Kenneth Smith be sentenced to life without the possibility of ...
politics / 7 months ago
Ohio lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday that would allow the state to execute people using nitrogen...
politics / 5 months ago
Brian Dorsey's appointed trial lawyers were paid a flat fee of $12,000 to represent him. Against the...
politics / 4 months ago
During the final six months of Donald Trump’s presidency, his administration carried out an unpreced...
politics / 4 months ago
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri death row prisoner who is due to be executed next month has been hospita...
entertainment / 3 months ago
Many Americans first learned about Sister Helen Prejean, the Catholic nun and prominent death penalt...
politics / 3 months ago
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his former lover and her husband in what prosecut...
politics / 2 months ago
In 2006, Ramiro Gonzales was sentenced to death in Texas as punishment for kidnapping, raping and ki...
politics / 2 months ago
Texas executed Ramiro Gonzales on Wednesday despite a stunning reversal from a psychiatrist who help...
politics / 2 months ago
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and...
politics / 4 weeks ago
In 2016, the Democratic Party became the country’s first major political party to formally call for ...
politics / 1 day ago
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina put Freddie Owens to death Friday as the state restarted execut...