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The history of the death penalty in Louisiana: How executions, opinions changed over time
It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what ...
A Troubling Development for the Death Penalty in the U.S.
Landry’s decision is significant in part because until recently, Louisiana was part of a group I call the death penalty ...
'Barbaric': Inmate chooses death by firing squad for execution in South Carolina next month
Brad Keith Sigmon is set to be executed by firing squad on March 7 for the 2001 beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, David and Gladys Larke.
Why new Attorney General Pam Bondi is going all in on the federal death penalty
Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after ...
Trump Is Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Federal Prisons Are Purposely Inhumane
The message is a direction to the federal government to use conditions of confinement as additional punishment — which is ...
SC condemned inmate selects death by firing squad, a first since the state legalized it
Brad Sigmon, 67, was sentenced to death in 2002 for fatally beating his ex-girlfriend's parents while trying to kidnap the ...
Two death row inmates convicted of murder executed
Two men convicted of murder were executed Thursday night, marking the fourth and fifth executions in the United States this ...
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Death penalty case revived in federal courts, raising questions about Louisiana execution methods
The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...
What to know about the death penalty and death row in Texas
Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...
Trump announces 'pardon czar' at Black History Month event, while White House heralds end of DEI
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he had made Alice Johnson, a Tennessee woman who was serving a life sentence for a drug crime before Trump commuted her sentence, a "pardon czar" to advise ...