Texas death row inmate’s final words before execution are revealed
The execution was the second this year in the U.S. and the first of four scheduled in Texas over the next three months, according to the Associated Press. Steven Lawayane Nelson, 37, was executed via lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:50pm CST at the Texas state penitentiary in Huntsville.
The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...
In a 120-page order, Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons also ruled that race was “a significant factor” in other death ...
A North Carolina judge ruled Friday that a Black defendant’s capital trial was undermined by allegations of racial bias ...
Prosecutors have been given Idaho student murders suspect Bryan Kohberger's medical and mental health records, newly unsealed ...
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Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US to be put to death by the method as he served his sentence for the 1991 ...
The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...
EXCLUSIVE: Attorney General Pam Bondi will push to end the weaponization of the legal system; lift the death penalty ban; and ...
Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital ...
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NC judge's ruling opens door for death row prisoners to challenge cases due to racial biasBacote spent 15 years on death row before former Governor Roy Cooper commuted his sentence to life without parole in December ...
This is not in any way lessening due process for those who are convicted and are facing the death penalty,” said Rep. Bruce ...
A federal judge will hold a hearing on whether May 14 mass shooter Payton Gendron is too young for the death penalty.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she will direct the DOJ to pursue the death penalty at the state level against the ...
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