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Showing posts with label Death penalty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Death penalty. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Execution of SC inmate convicted 23 years ago marks first execution in the US for 2025

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By Sklar Laird Marion Bowman was the third death row inmate executed in SC since September COLUMBIA — Marion Bowman died Friday night by let...
Friday, December 27, 2024

Biden Commutes 37 Death Penalty Sentences — Critics Call for More

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By Chris Walker, Truthout President Joe Biden has granted commutations to most of the people currently facing a federal death penalty senten...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Report: Florida imposed seven new death sentences in 2024, most in the nation

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By Christine Sexton An  annual report  put together by a national group that tracks the death penalty says Florida led the nation this year ...
Monday, December 9, 2024

To Thwart Trump Killing Spree, Biden Urged to Commute Death Penalty Cases

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The former president, warned a broad rights coalition, "executed more people than the previous ten administrations combined." A la...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Marcellus Williams executed after U.S. Supreme Court rejects final appeal

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 By Rudi Keller Just a few hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeal, Missouri officials executed Marcellus Williams Tues...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Federal judge refuses to halt Friday’s execution in SC

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By Sklar Laird The Wednesday order came as part of a new lawsuit about a state secrecy law COLUMBIA — A federal judge said Wednesday she wil...

Supreme Court 5-4 decision paves way for Willie Jerome Manning’s execution

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By Mina Corpuz  Willie Jerome Manning, sentenced to death for the murder of two Mississippi State University students 30 years ago,  “has ha...
Friday, September 13, 2024

SC Supreme Court will not halt upcoming execution; activists call for clemency

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By  Sklar Laird COLUMBIA — The state Supreme Court will not halt the state’s first execution in 13 years over an inmate’s claims of new evid...
Friday, September 6, 2024

SC’s 1st inmate to be executed in 13 years will die by lethal injection, attorney decides

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 By Sklar Laird COLUMBIA — Death row inmate Freddie Owens will die by lethal injection, his attorney decided Friday. That is, if the executi...

Attorney for death row inmate can decide his method of execution, SC Supreme Court says

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 By Skylar Laird Freddie Owens asked his attorney to make the decision because of his religious beliefs COLUMBIA — A death row inmate’s atto...
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Death row inmate asks SC Supreme Court to halt execution after attorneys claim new evidence

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By Sklar Laird Owens’ execution is scheduled for Sept. 20, set to be the state’s first in 13 years COLUMBIA — The inmate who is scheduled fo...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Ohio House holds first hearing for new nitrogen gas death penalty method

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By Nick Evans House lawmakers have begun hearings on a controversial new execution method known as nitrogen hypoxia. The protocol, used in A...
Friday, March 1, 2024

Death penalty on trial as Racial Justice Act hearing begins

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By Kelan Lyons In 1968, days after the Ku Klux Klan marched through Black neighborhoods in Benson following the assassination of Martin Luth...
Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Is the death penalty dying? Sentences, executions remain low

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  The number of executions in 2023 rose to 24 from 18 a year earlier. Texas (8) and Florida (6) made up 60% of the total. The number of stat...

He’s on Louisiana’s death row, his attorneys say, for a crime that didn’t happen

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A Netflix documentary calls into question the methods of forensic examiners in the case BY:  GREG LAROSE “Definitely, the system in Louisian...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Stop the execution of Kevin Johnson

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Josh Mayfield , November 21, 2022 On Aug. 25, the Missouri Supreme Court set Kevin “KJ” Johnson’s execution date for Nov. 29. Johnson was co...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Hillary wins...and the black vote loses

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By Charles Brooks The South Carolina primary was to be a test of black vote for both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders – and the blac...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

The Blackboard survey - The death penalty

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UPDATED JUNE 19th 2014 You may have noticed the death penalty in the news lately especially around what happened in Oklahoma, Florida, and...