i went to death row for 28 years through no fault...
Anthony Ray Hinton endured nearly three decades behind bars,wrongly convicted by Alabamas racist...
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americas death penalty capital: can a black da...
After years of what many say was a culture of unjust death penalty prosecutions fueled by racial...
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death penalty rates plunge to lowest level in the...
Even in the states most enthusiastic approximately capital punishment – Texas,Missouri and Georgia...
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is this really the end for america s death...
The exhaust of the ultimate sanction in American justice is on the waneLong ago in 1992,the aides of...
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oklahoma death row inmates supporters: hes just...
With Richard Glossip’s execution due on Wednesday his defenders include Sister Helen Prejean and a...
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the death penalty saves lives - the pope is wrong...
Pope Francis argues that no circumstances justify capital punishment,but when used correctly it can...
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virginia governor rejects plan to revive electric...
Terry McAuliffe in a final-minute ruling guts bill that would beget seen the return of ‘Old Sparky...
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iran and pakistan fuel surge in executions to 25...
Saudi Arabia also highlighted in Amnesty report revealing ‘profoundly disturbing’ rise in global...
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he should be treated as a human: death row...
State’s policies quietly overhauled recently after months of legal challenges as the seven men...
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the business of securing death sentences: 40 years...
In his four decade career,district attorney Donnie Myers was a powerhouse of the death penalty in...
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ohio suspends all executions until 2017 as lethal...
Supplies of sodium thiopental and pentobarbital dry up as other states also forced into moratorium...
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virginia governor rejects plan to revive electric...
Terry McAuliffe in a final-minute ruling guts bill that would have seen the return of ‘weak...
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virginia governor has hours to decide on return of...
As state faces drug shortage,Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe has until midnight to decide whether chair...
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wanted executioners, anyone may apply: archive,...
24 February 1956: A written reply in the Commons reveals there are two vacancies for...
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arkansas judge orders state to disclose source of...
Arkansas given deadline to release information approximately execution drug supplier to attorneys...
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japan executes two prisoners amid protests
Hangings took place weeks before Japan is due to host the G7 leaders summitHuman rights campaigners...
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missouri governor spares death row inmate three...
Jay Nixon made a surprise announcement on Friday amid a mounting chorus of protests that the...
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amnesty report offers grim view of joko widodos...
Report finds that many foreign death row prisoners in Indonesia were denied access to legal and...
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oldest prisoner on georgias death row is executed
Brandon Astor Jones,72, died by deadly injection after being sentenced to death for the 1979 murder...
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texas lethal injection drug may be expired and...
Lawyers say the potentially outdated barbiturate pentobarbital,used to execute more prisoners than...
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untested drugs, secret sources: the controversy...
Oklahoma stayed the execution of Richard Glossip on Wednesday over questions about its drug...
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pakistan set to execute paraplegic man as it nears...
Hanging of Abdul Basit,who was convicted of murder, will make Islamabad one of the world’s worst...
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texas man convicted of killing police officer to...
Luis Escamilla convicted of shooting off-duty officer in 2001With no appeals pending,execution would...
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california edging back towards executions with...
Prison officials draw up single-drug protocol but death penalty has not been carried out since 2006...
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ohio bill would exempt severely mentally ill from...
Prosecutors say proposed legislation ruling out death penalty before trial for some offenders would...
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paraplegic death row prisoner gets last minute...
justice of the peace in Faisalabad stops execution of Abdul Basit over uncertainty on how to hang a...
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jurors recommend death sentence for white...
The jury convicted 74-year-ancient Frazier Glenn Miller Jr last week of capital murder after he...
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death penalty in the uk suspended fifty years ago
The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 suspended the death penalty in England and Wales...
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nebraska tried to get lethal injection drug from...
Order placed in October for pancuronium bromide from Gulf Coast Pharmaceuticals was cancelled after...
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arkansas schedules first executions in 10 years...
The state hasn’t executed anyone since 2005 because of legal battles and trouble securing deadly...
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georgia executes brian keith terrell for killing...
Prisoner put to death by deadly injection despite his lawyers arguing there was no physical evidence...
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georgia executes man over 1994 slaying of woman he...
Marcus Ray Johnson,50, put to death after losing a series of appeals that argued doubts remained...
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pope francis appeals for global end to capital...
Pontiff tells crowd in St Peter’s Square that ‘You shall not execute’ applies to the innocent...
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florida executes jerry correll over four murders...
Midazolam used in deadly injection process following unsuccessful legal challenge as state carries...
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jeb bush conflicted on death penalty: its hard to...
Republican candidate admits it should be reformed but remains a supporter‘It clogs up the courts,...
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australian woman faces execution if found guilty...
Lawyers of Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto say the Sydney grandmother was the victim of an online romance...
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