AMY GOODMAN: Sister Helen Prejean, you have the Trump administration announcing plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation to its arsenal of methods to execute federal prisoners on ...

After the DOJ released a memo to bring back firing squads as a form of capital punishment, Black inmates on death row are ...

Clarence Jordan, a condemned Houston man with a history of mental health issues whose death sentence was vacated, will not ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A recent report has found that for every five inmates Ohio executes, one is freed from death row. Since Ohio reinstated the death penalty in 1981, the state has executed 56 ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed sympathetic to a Mississippi man who argues that a district attorney violated the Constitution’s ban on racial discrimination in jury selection. Terry Pitchford is ...

WHAT BOTH SIDES ARE ARGUING. MARIA. JEAN, WHEN THE STATE ABOLISHED THE DEATH PENALTY BACK IN 2019, THERE WAS A STATUTE THAT SAID THAT THIS DID NOT APPLY TO PREVIOUS CASES, MEANING THAT THE DEATH ...

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A bill that would clear the way for executions of death row inmates to resume in the commonwealth is headed to Gov. Andy Beshear’s desk after it passed in the Kentucky Senate on April 1. Senate Bill ...

Samuel Moreland was convicted of killing five people in 1985, including three children. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost Election 2026 Ohio Governor On Nov. 1, 1985, five people were killed and three ...

Manchester Police Chief Peter Marr shakes hands with Assistant Attorney General Audriana Mekula at an appeal hearing for Michael Addison at the New Hampshire Supreme Court in Concord on March 26, 2026 ...

Convicted killer Wade Wilson is one of eight death row inmates connected to Southwest Florida crimes. Seven of the inmates are from Lee County, while one is from Collier County. Some inmates, like ...