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A Wyandotte County judge agreed with criticisms of the death penalty, but he said the case was invalid because both defendants no longer face capital punishment.

The United States Supreme Court has thrown out the death sentence and murder conviction of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip.

United States Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to return convicted murderer John Fitzgerald Hanson to Oklahoma so he can be executed.

Those housed in the O’Daniel Unit in Gatesville, including such names as Melissa Lucio, have had their lives touched by a particular Catholic order.

In an unusual court proceeding that began in October, the ACLU and other attorneys asserted that Kansas' death penalty law should be struck down because the practice of jury selection in capital cases dictated that prospective jurors had to be willing to impose the death penalty to serve in the first place.

Nearly two decades after Kevin Ray Underwood murdered his 10-year-old neighbor, he died by lethal injection this morning at 10:14 a.m., according to media witnesses.

In total, Biden commuted 37 out of 40 death sentences to life without the possibility of parole. The group Human Rights Dallas said the president should grant clemency to all 40.

Friday marked the second attempt to get Roberson to give testimony in Austin before the Texas House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence.

The new subpoena comes after lawmakers say Ken Paxton’s office stalled a previous effort to get Roberson’s legislative testimony about his conviction in 'shaken baby' case.

Senior District Judge Deborah Oakes Evans recused herself after a challenge to her impartiality over longtime relationships with case prosecutors and judges.