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, ...
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 ...
Young KY mom no longer facing threat of execution in 2023 death of toddler daughter
The state has shifted its legal theory about Elena Hembree's death. Erica Lawson still faces prosecution in the child's death ...
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Unemployment changes, death penalty for child rape pass the House
Bills changing unemployment requirements, imposing the death penalty and requiring parental consent for vaccines passed the ...
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Red state death penalty repeal efforts emerge despite Trump's order to expand use of the practice
Efforts to repeal the death penalty have been introduced in two Republican-led states, with some lawmakers citing their ...
Opponents of death penalty ask CT lawmakers for ban on sale of lethal injection drugs
Connecticut companies would be banned from selling drugs used in capital punishment under bill opposed by state hospitals.
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 ...
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Death penalty withdrawn in case of Kentucky mom charged in child’s death
The death penalty has been withdrawn in the case of a Kentucky mom charged in her daughter’s death. A judge signed an order ...
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Judge grants a hearing to May 14 mass shooter on whether he's too young for death penalty
A federal judge will hold a hearing on whether May 14 mass shooter Payton Gendron is too young for the death penalty.
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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Racial bias tainted jury selection and death sentence for a Black man in North Carolina, judge says
SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ...