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South Carolina Executes Man on Death Row Days After Key Witness Recants Testimony

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25 Sep, 2024

South Carolina Executes Man on Death Row Days After Key Witness Recants Testimony


South Carolina executed a man on death row on Friday, days after the key witness for the prosecution came forward...

Missouri Executes Inmate Despite Questions of Innocence, Prosecutors' Plea for Mercy

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25 Sep, 2024

Missouri Executes Inmate Despite Questions of Innocence, Prosecutors' Plea for Mercy


Marcellus Williams, a Missouri inmate on death row since 2001, was executed as scheduled on Tuesday, Sept. 24. Williams died...

Missouri to Execute Death Row Inmate Despite New Evidence and Doubts About Trial

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24 Sep, 2024

Missouri to Execute Death Row Inmate Despite New Evidence and Doubts About Trial


Missouri is set to execute a death row inmate Tuesday night after two efforts to save his life failed. The...

Missouri Set to Execute Man Prosecutors Now Say May Be Innocent - Despite Pleas from Victims' Family

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24 Sep, 2024

Missouri Set to Execute Man Prosecutors Now Say May Be Innocent - Despite Pleas from Victims' Family


Missouri is set to execute 55-year-old death row inmate Marcellus Williams on Tuesday evening — despite pleas from prosecutors and...

Missouri Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence for Marcellus Williams Despite Questions About Innocence

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24 Sep, 2024

Missouri Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence for Marcellus Williams Despite Questions About Innocence


Today, advocates for Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams gathered outside the Missouri Supreme Court, where his appeal was heard in a final...

South Carolina Executes First Inmate in 13 Years: Freddie Owens Put to Death for 1997 Murder

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21 Sep, 2024

South Carolina Executes First Inmate in 13 Years: Freddie Owens Put to Death for 1997 Murder


Freddie Owens was executed Friday evening by lethal injection, after his attorneys’ last-chance appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court failed...

South Carolina Executes Man on Death Row Days After Key Witness Recants Testimony

World

21 Sep, 2024

South Carolina Executes Man on Death Row Days After Key Witness Recants Testimony


South Carolina executed a man on death row on Friday, days after the key witness for the prosecution came forward...

Florida's 'Deadpool Killer' Sentenced to Death for Brutal Murders

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28 Aug, 2024

Florida's 'Deadpool Killer' Sentenced to Death for Brutal Murders


A man with a Nazi tattoo on his face has been sentenced to death for murdering two women, reports have...

Utah Executes First Death Row Inmate Since 2010: What Really Happened in the Execution Chamber?

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9 Aug, 2024

Utah Executes First Death Row Inmate Since 2010: What Really Happened in the Execution Chamber?


If Taberon Honie felt pain as his heart’s final pulses pumped pentobarbital through his body, it was suffering that I...

9/11 Mastermind's Plea Deal Revoked: Death Penalty Back on the Table

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3 Aug, 2024

9/11 Mastermind's Plea Deal Revoked: Death Penalty Back on the Table


Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III on Friday overruled the overseer of the war court at Guantánamo Bay and revoked...

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