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On This Day, June 29: U.S. Supreme Court finds death penalty unconstitutional
On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...
Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state’s death row for 1976 killing
The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed ...
Harrisburg man facing death penalty in two killings tells judge he’ll represent himself at trial
A Harrisburg man potentially facing the death penalty just fired his public defender and told a judge he would represent ...
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Louisiana Supreme Court rules again in Rapides Parish death penalty case
The court had earlier vacated Darrell Robinson's conviction and death sentence in a brutal quadruple murder in Rapides Parish ...
Vietnam to remove death penalty for embezzlement, sparing tycoon’s life
Vietnam will remove the death penalty for eight offences from next month, including embezzlement and activities aimed at ...
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Court rules in favor of death row inmate
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas man on death row can bring a federal civil rights claim to challenge the ...
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U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Texas death row inmate pushing for DNA evidence tests
Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...
Mississippi executes man on death row for nearly 50 years
The longest-serving death row inmate in Mississippi's history, Richard Jordan, was executed Wednesday evening at the ...
Vietnam veteran executed in Mississippi after nearly 50 years on death row for 1976 murder
After four trials, 79-year-old Richard Gerald Jordan was executed in Mississippi for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter, a ...
Supreme Court Sides With Death Row Prisoner Seeking DNA Testing
For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman ...