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Life after California's death row: What happens when condemned inmates get a second chance
For prisoners, the transfers off a dismantled death row have brought a broad variety of experiences and emotions.
Tarrant jury rejects death penalty, decides man who shot 3 in head should serve life
Lamont Cousins enters the courtroom for the closing arguments in the sentencing phase of his trial on Wednesday, April 30, at ...
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Another Death in Hinds County Jail
The death of a 37-year-old man follows an assault inside the Raymond Detention Center as a federal receiver is poised to take ...
Danielle's murder shook Britain. When I found out my brother had done it, it left me with an unthinkable fear: There could be a predator lurking in me too: ALIX SHARKEY
It has now been nearly a quarter of a century since I last saw my little brother Stuart Campbell, on a muggy afternoon in ...
Mississippi sets an execution date for a man who’s been on death row since 1976
The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25.
Execution date set for man on Mississippi death row for nearly 50 years
Richard Gerald Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row since 1977. The state has set an execution date of June 25, saying ...
Oscar Franklin Smith, Tennessee death row inmate, declines to select execution method
Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled to die on May 22, declined to select a method meaning it ...
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Mississippi Supreme Court sets execution date for man on death row since 1976
The Mississippi Supreme Court has set an execution date for the man who has been on the state’s death row longer than any other inmate. According to the court, the ...
Death Row Inmate’s Appeal of Texas DNA Procedure Fizzles Out
A death row inmate was unable to convince a federal appeals court that Texas’ post-conviction DNA-testing procedures violate his right to due process on Thursday.