Alabama seeks to join states that allow the death penalty for child rape
The Alabama House of Representatives voted 86-5 for the bill that would allow prosecutors to pursue the death penalty when an ...
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Alabama seeks to join states that allow the death penalty for child rape
Alabama lawmakers advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow child rapists ...
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Alabama seeks to join states that allow the death penalty for child rape
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death as some Republicans hope to entice the U.S. Supreme Court to ...
Executions in Alabama and Texas as Trump administration sets out death penalty agenda
The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s ...
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Why 1st death row killing in 15 years is off, even as Louisiana plans to resume executions
Meanwhile, Sims on Monday asked 22nd District Judge Alan Zaunbrecher to set an execution date for Jessie Hoffman, who was sent to death row for the ... and shortly after Alabama began executing ...
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Supreme Court to consider death row plea for DNA testing
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 24 in the case of a man on Texas death row who has long tried to obtain postconviction DNA testing on evidence that he says would exonerate him.
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Once filled with rage, Texas death row inmate set to be executed is now 'a gentle human'
Now 20 years later, those who know him say he's a deeply faithful man who has become so gentle, he recently hand-raised a baby lizard in his cell on Texas Death Row. "The man I was 20 years ago is ...