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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.
Eighty-six state representatives — as well as medical experts, death penalty attorneys, a former detective on the case and Grisham — are supporting Roberson because they believe his conviction was based on faulty scientific evidence. Roberson was sentenced to death for killing his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, in 2002.
Oct. 4, 2024, 3:57 p.m. ET. The Supreme Court on Friday added more than a dozen cases to the docket for its new term, which begins next week. Among the cases: a death row prisoner seeking DNA ...
If the final two go ahead, the U.S will have reached 1,600 executions since the death penalty was reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976, according to data from nonprofit Death Penalty ...
The United States has reached a milestone in the administration of capital punishment this week. All four scheduled executions in Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Alabama took place, marking the 1600 th execution in the modern era of the death penalty in the U.S., despite public opinion polls showing growing concerns about the fairness and accuracy of the death penalty and declining support for ...
Please scroll over each state on the above map to see the number of active and inactive death warrants, as well as the number of executions. For information on all known warrants this year, see the Outcome of Death Warrants in 2024 page.
DEATH PENALTY CENSUS. Aug 29, 2024. New Resource: Updated Death Penalty Census. DPI’s database of more than 9, 800 death sentences imposed between the Supreme Court ruling striking down U.S. death penalty laws in 1972 and January 1, 2024 details the systemic arbitrariness, bias, and error of the modern U.S. death penalty ...