South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...
The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for Oscar Smith, Byron Black, Donald Middlebrooks and Harold Nichols.
On a cold, wet November morning in 1972, Roger Bontems was marched to the guillotine for complicity in two murders, neither ...
Defendants seeking relief from capital punishment typically don’t win at the high court, but Richard Glossip’s case was a ...
Yet often, courts have found a way to ignore or dismiss those unpleasant facts in their capital punishment jurisprudence. Following a notorious 1987 Supreme Court precedent, McCleskey v.
Mahoning County Prosecutor Lynn Maro was asked for her reaction to two letters Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins sent urging federal and state officials to help restore Ohio’s ability to carry ...
A Senate subcommittee advanced this year’s proposal to reinstate the death penalty in Iowa in cases where a person is found guilty of the intentional killing of a peace officer.