State weighing death penalty for suspected murderer of Cuban reggaeton star El Taiger
Fans gather in Hialeah after the October death of Cuban reggaeton star El Taiger, whose real name is Jose Manuel Carvajal ...
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Texas legislators seek more protections for death penalty defendants in wake of Trump executive order
Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...
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Acquitted longest-serving death row inmate seeks $1.3 mn from Japan
The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government pay him more than $1.3 million in ...
Ohio is Testing Radical Strategy To End Death Penalty
The proposal would link capital punishment abolishment with prohibitions on state funding for abortion or physician-assisted ...
San Jacinto County mass murderer avoids death penalty with plea deal
On Wednesday, Francisco Oropeza waived his rights to a jury trial and to appeal by pleading guilty to capital murder. In ...
Florida leads America in wrongful convictions - and new death-row sentences
Florida was one of only three states to both execute someone and put more people on death row in 2024. Florida also has more wrongful convictions than any other state.
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Acquitted death row inmate seeks $1.3M from Japan
The world's longest-serving death row inmate is demanding the Japanese government to pay him more than $1.3 million in compensation after his conviction was quashed, his lawyer said on Thursday.
'I did not do it': South Carolina man set for execution argues innocence, racial bias
Marion Bowman Jr. is set to be executed on Friday for the shooting death of Kandee Martin in 2001. Martin's body was found in ...
Opinion
Why I pray for South Carolina’s death row prisoners every time one is executed | Opinion
South Carolina executed death row inmates on Sept. 20 and Nov. 1 and will execute a third on Friday. Deana Lattanzio shares why she prays for them.
Female thug who left woman millimetres from death after slashing her with bottle outside pub in taxi row avoids prison
WARNING Sharnice Summer, 32, was just two millimetres away from killing Bethany Lockyer, 28, when she attacked her with a ...
Mettupalayam ‘honour’ killings: Convict gets death penalty
COIMBATORE: A special court in Coimbatore on Wednesday sentenced a 30-year-old man to death for murdering his brother and the ...