Georgia House advances bill to ease death penalty law for intellectually disabled people
The Georgia House unanimously passed a bill to lessen the threshold for a person facing the death penalty to be deemed ...
'I'm angry': Death Row inmate David Leonard Wood says he's innocent as execution nears
Wood's conviction of the murders of six women and girls in El Paso, Texas in 1987 was largely based on circumstantial ...
Second death penalty trial begins for man who ambushed and killed Sacramento police rookie
Adel Ramos pleaded guilty to the 2019 murder of officer Tara O’Sullivan, but a jury deadlocked last year on whether he should ...
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Tennessee's death row has been on hold for five years. Four inmates are now scheduled to die.
Four people are now set for execution in 2025 after years of Tennessee pausing its execution process for death penalty cases.
Georgia lawmakers consider easing one of the nation’s toughest death penalty laws
Lawmakers have tried multiple times to change Georgia's strict legal standard to prove that someone has an intellectual ...
What’s next for former Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip after the Supreme Court ordered he receive a new trial
After nearly three decades maintaining his innocence on Oklahoma’s death row, Richard Glossip this week now has the ...
Bryan Kohberger’s lawyers say autism makes him ineligible for death penalty
Bryan Kohberger’s legal team is contending his autism diagnosis should prevent him from receiving the death penalty if he’s found guilty of murdering four University of Idaho students ...
Bryan Kohberger has autism. His attorneys say the diagnosis should remove death penalty
His attorneys argued that there is an “unconscionable risk” he’ll be executed because of a neurological disorder rather than ...
Ohio lawmakers debate dueling death penalty reform proposals
Efforts to end the death penalty in Ohio have gained more support from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in recent years. But it hasn’t been enough to get any bill across the finish line.
Alabama Death Row inmate Toforest Johnson’s lawyers push for new trial after Steve Marshall’s ‘alarming’ actions
Toforest Johnson has always maintained his innocence, and the DA is unsure of his conviction. But Alabama Attorney General ...
Louisiana's oldest death row inmate dies less than month before execution date
Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a ...
Death penalty opponents file suit to save Jessie Hoffman
As the governor and others try to fulfill promises that the state will resume executing those awaiting the death penalty, ...