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Indiana seeks execution date for death row inmate Roy Lee Ward
The request comes shortly after Gov. Mike Braun suggested that state lawmakers take up debate on capital punishment.
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Convicted rapist, murderer may soon get death penalty
The man who raped and killed Spencer County 15-year-old Stacy Payne in 2001 may soon be put to death for his actions. The ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Longest-Serving Man on Miss. Death Row Executed for 1976 Murder: 'Should Have Happened a Long Time Ago,' Victim’s Son Says
Richard Jordan, the longest-serving and oldest person on Mississippi's death row, was executed on June 25 for the 1976 murder ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...