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Why 1st death row killing in 15 years is off, even as Louisiana plans to resume executions
Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...
Death Row inmate James Dennis Ford's life shaped by alcohol, loss before couple's murder
Ford was convicted of murdering Kimberly and Gregory Malnory, whose toddler daughter was found covered in her mother's blood ...
CT weighs barring companies from selling products for use in death penalty
I am grateful to Connecticut for banning the death penalty, but it is deeply troubling to me that Connecticut companies are ...
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 ...
The New Yorker1d
The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
No, a Feb. 5 DOJ memo does not authorize the death penalty solely for being an undocumented immigrant
A memo directs DOJ staff to pursue the death penalty for undocumented immigrants who have been charged with capital crimes, ...
Catholic News Agency1d
Does the death penalty deter crime?
The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...
The New Yorker1d
The Ladies on Death Row
From the daily newsletter: an editor’s note from Daniel Zalewski. Plus: Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion on Martha Stewart; ...
Alabama seeks to join states that allow the death penalty for child rape
Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death as some Republicans ...