Former boxer who served world's longest sentence on death row …
WEB1 day ago · The world's longest-serving death row prisoner thanked his supporters for helping him achieve "complete victory" after a Japanese court last week overturned his decades-old murder conviction ...
The world’s longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japan …
WEB1 day ago · The world’s longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japan mulls suing the government. Hideyo Ogawa, lawyer for Iwao Hakamada, who was recently acquitted by a district court after a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae) Hideko Hakamada, a sister of ...
5 executions planned this week in the U.S., the most in decades
WEB6 days ago · 5 executions planned this week in the U.S., the most in decades. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high ...
Upcoming Executions | Death Penalty Information Center
WEBNov 17, 2017 · This page will be updated at 12 noon (Eastern Time) each day to reflect executions that occurred in the previous 24 hours. Please scroll over each state on the above map to see the number of active and inactive death warrants, as well as …
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WEBJul 1, 2024 · DPI Report — Lethal Election: How the U.S. Electoral Process Increases the Arbitrariness of the Death Penalty. Electoral politics distort the fairness and accuracy of capital punishment, as evidenced by new data and analysis on appellate rulings and clemency decisions
Alabama puts to death Kenneth Smith in first known execution …
WEBJan 25, 2024 · Alabama on Thursday night executed Kenneth Smith, the first death row inmate known to die by nitrogen gas, marking the emergence of a wholly new method of execution in the United States...
Supreme Court could overturn Oklahoma death row inmate's …
WEBJan 22, 2024 · WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday said it will hear an appeal from Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, who has steadfastly maintained his innocence and averted multiple attempts by the state to execute him.
Alabama nitrogen gas execution reignites US ... - Associated Press …
WEBJan 26, 2024 · Alabama executed convicted murderer Smith with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again placed the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over capital punishment. Smith was convicted of the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler) Read More. 7 of 11 |.
Alabama death row inmate James Barber executed following
WEBJul 21, 2023 · Alabama death row inmate James Barber was executed early Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a stay over fears that he could be subject to “substantial harm"...
Supreme Court Stays Execution of Death Row Inmate Richard …
WEBMay 5, 2023 · WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court granted a stay of execution on Friday to Richard Glossip, a death row inmate in Oklahoma, after the state’s attorney general, Gentner F. Drummond, a Republican,...