What if death row prisoners participated in political debate? Do people sentenced to death agree with Gov. Mike DeWine? He ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on June 15 rejected an appeal from a Texas death row inmate whose case had gotten the attention of magicians Penn & Teller. Lawyers for Charles Flores, who was found ...

Clarence Jordan, who was sentenced to death in 1978, is currently housed at the Estelle Unit in Huntsville. Credit: Screenshot A 1977 convenience store robbery that resulted in a clerk’s death landed ...

The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that COVID-19-focused for public access that had, temporarily, stalled executions for nine prisoners were no longer a factor. According to the court ruling, filed ...

For more than an hour, Tony Carruthers lay strapped to an execution gurney in Tennessee's death chamber as his executioners struggled to find a vein. They tried his arms, shoulders, feet, chest and ...

Black defendant was convicted by mostly white jury Case was tried in state court in Mississippi Prosecutor dismissed four Black potential jurors Justices backed another Mississippi inmate in 2019 May ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of a Black man on death row in Mississippi who objected when a prosecutor sought to exclude potential jury members who were Black, paving the way ...

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Terry Pitchford was convicted in 2006 for his role in the murder of a shopkeeper by a 12-member jury that included one Black member. By Ann E. Marimow Reporting from Washington A divided Supreme Court ...

Tennessee has called off the execution of a death row inmate convicted of triple murder after his executioners failed to insert a backup intravenous line, prompting the governor to grant a one-year ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. The Supreme Court on Thursday left in place a ruling by a federal appeals court in favor of an Alabama man who has been on ...