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When prosecutors admit they were wrong in a death penalty case, courts should listen.
Marcellus Williams, whose murder conviction was questioned by a prosecutor, died by lethal injection Tuesday evening in Missouri after the US Supreme Court denied a stay.
The past two days, I have blogged (here and here) about Glossip v. Oklahoma, a death penalty case that the Supreme Court will hear next Wednesday. I
Kamala Harris has historically declined to purse death penalty verdicts as a District Attorney, but hasn’t mentioned her current stance or given a statement on the death of Marcellus Williams ...
Federal Death Penalty Case Summaries for Modern Federal Death Sentences. Richard Tipton, James H. Roane, Jr. — All Black. Tipton, Roane, and their co-defendant Corey Johnson were members of an inner-city gang in Richmond, VA. They were sentenced to death in February 1993 for their participation in a series of drug-related murders.
Read important U.S. Supreme Court decisions involving Death Penalty & Criminal Sentencing and learn about how the Justices have shaped the law in this area.
Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder. She received a lethal injection at a prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, after a last-minute ...
The Center also produces groundbreaking reports on various issues related to the death penalty such as arbitrariness, costs, innocence, and race.
Death penalty researchers found that mishandled incidents made up more than a third of the total number of execution attempts — a record high even as capital punishment in the U.S. remain near...
The combined impact of the continuing COVID pandemic and dwindling support for capital punishment made 2021 the seventh consecutive year with fewer than 30 executions and 50 new death sentences in the United States.