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President Donald Trump's administration is faltering in its aggressive pursuit of the death penalty as it revisits cases in ...
President Trump's administration endeavors to reverse death penalty decisions made by predecessors, but faces significant ...
Elias Rodriguez stands accused of shooting Israeli embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim to death outside the ...
On his final day in office in December, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper issued clemency to 15 people on death row. The N&O ...
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, has become a less frequently used penalty over the years, but it is still in effect in several states. For the fifth straight year, fewer ...
Thirteen other states have effectively abandoned the death penalty in practice, though the law allowing the use of capital punishment remains on the books. The governors of Oregon, ...
Foreign defendants are rarely sent to the United States if they might face death, and America’s use of capital punishment has ...
Sixty percent of death sentences in the state have been reversed since 1972, according to data from Justice 360, a statewide nonprofit working to reform policies and practices in capital ...
On paper, thirty-two states and the federal government currently allow capital punishment. But in practice, the death penalty has been largely abandoned throughout most of the United States.
When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the ...
Missy was pronounced dead in May after being found unresponsive at her home in Tallahassee’s Southwood neighborhood. Her ...