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Garcia Glen White's attorneys argue that his mental deficiencies combined with prolonged use of crack cocaine are responsible for the murder of 16-year-old identical twin girls.

Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that ...

Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that ...

Five death row inmates were put to death in the US over the past week, a pace unprecedented since July 2003. With the deaths ...

Alan Eugene Miller was executed in Alabama, making him the second American to be executed by inhaling nitrogen gas. Miller, ...

Alan Eugene Miller became the second death row inmate in the U.S. to be executed using nitrogen gas on Thursday evening, nearly 25 years after the murders of ...

More than half of American states have abolished the death penalty or hit pause on executions. Less than half —47%—of ...

The state of South Carolina on Friday strapped down Freddie Owens and injected him with a chemical that’s usually used to ...

The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...