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Judge rejects motion to quash death penalty in Laurel quadruple murder case
Jason Jones’s attorney filed that motion in January 2023, and the judge considered the argument in March of that year.
A tattoo, the N-word, a different crime: Colorado justices hear appeal of former death row inmate
Almost 20 years after the murders of a young couple in Aurora, the Colorado Supreme Court heard the appeal of the man ...
District judge denies convicted murderer's request to rule state's death penalty statutes unconstitutional
In Cedar County, Nebraska, a district judge denied a request to rule the state's death penalty statutes unconstitutional.
DOJ rejects argument death row inmates can object to Biden’s commutation
The DOJ said that while not only are commutations legal, the president additionally has the authority to decide commutations.
Two prisoners can't legally object to Biden's death row commutations, DOJ argues
Two prisoners who have taken the unusual step to ask a federal judge to nullify their death row commutations granted by ...
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Alabama to execute Demetrius Frazier by nitrogen hypoxia
Frazier would be the state's first execution of 2025. He was convicted in 1991 of the rape and murder of Pauline Brown.
On his final day in office, NC Gov. Roy Cooper commuted 15 death sentences; who are they?
As one of his last acts in office, Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 people on North Carolina's death row to life ...
Closing of Birmingham-Southern College, death of Alabama A&M football player among CBS 42’s most-read stories of 2024
From a mass shooting in Birmingham where four people were killed and 17 others injured to the closing of one of the oldest ...
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Japan's "Black Widow" death row inmate, Chisako Kakehi, dies at 78
A Japanese death-row inmate, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers, has died in a detention center at age 78, officials said on Friday. Chisako Kakehi was ...
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Japan's 'Black Widow' murderer dies while on death row
She had been on death row since 2017. A Japanese death row inmate known as the "Black Widow" for killing multiple elderly lovers has died, officials said on Friday. Chisako Kakehi was sentenced to ...
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Trump’s Christmas Day message to death-row inmates granted clemency by Biden: ‘GO TO HELL!’
President-elect Donald Trump refused to wish federal death-row inmates granted clemency by President Biden a merry Christmas on Wednesday – telling them to “go to Hell.” “[T]o the 37 most ...