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Four men are scheduled to be executed in the coming weeks, which would be the first use of the federal death penalty since 2003.
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In two weeks, two Texas executions have been stopped by the courts. On Monday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals halted the Thursday execution of Mark...
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From Texas Standard : On Tuesday, a new Texas Department of Criminal Justice policy went into effect, banning any religious adviser from being in the...
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the appeal of a Kansas death row inmate who claims the state unconstitutionally abolished his right to...
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The state has only executed one person since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976: Gary Lee Davis in 1997.
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Studies have shown that Texas prosecutors chose to pursue the death penalty more often when a defendant was black than if a defendant was white. And...
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From Texas Standard . Texas is re-upping a request to “opt in” to a federal law that would speed up the execution appeals process in the state,...
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The State of Oklahoma will not execute any inmates in 2017.As KOKH reports, this year marks the third straight year that the death chamber has remained…
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Kansas Supreme Court Seated left to right: Hon. Marla J. Luckert, Hon. Lawton R. Nuss, Chief Justice; Hon. Carol A. Beier. Standing left to right: Hon.…
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A study by the Death Penalty Information Center found that death sentences and executions dropped to historic lows in 2016.According to a press release…