Texas death row inmate's DNA testing case goes to US Supreme …
WEB13 hours ago — The death row inmate, Ruben Gutierrez, appealed a lower court's ruling against his challenge to a Texas law limiting the use of DNA testing after a person has been convicted of a crime. The ...
South Carolina sets Nov. 1 execution as state ramps up use of death ...
WEB17 hours ago — COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s high court on Friday set a date of Nov. 1 to put to death a man who killed a store clerk a quarter-century ago, the second of an expected six executions in about six months as the state ramps up its use of capital punishment after a 13-year pause. Richard Moore went …
Supreme Court to Weigh a Texas Death Row Case After Halting …
WEB16 hours ago — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of a Texas man on death row who has long argued that DNA testing would help prove he didn't kill an 85-year-old woman during a home robbery decades ago
Supreme Court to weigh a Texas death row case ... - Associated Press News
WEB16 hours ago — WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of a Texas man on death row who has long argued that DNA testing would help prove he didn’t kill an 85-year-old woman during a home robbery decades ago. The order came down Friday in the case of Ruben Gutierrez, months after the justices stayed his execution 20 minutes before he ...
Former boxer who served world's longest sentence on death row …
WEB4 days ago — The world's longest-serving death row prisoner thanked his supporters for helping him achieve "complete victory" after a Japanese court last week overturned his decades-old murder conviction ...
Upcoming Executions | Death Penalty Information Center
WEBNov 17, 2017 — This page will be updated at 12 noon (Eastern Time) each day to reflect executions that occurred in the previous 24 hours. Please scroll over each state on the above map to see the number of active and inactive death warrants, as well as …
Marcellus Williams is executed despite prosecutors and the …
WEBSep 24, 2024 — Marcellus Williams, whose murder conviction was questioned by a prosecutor, died by lethal injection Tuesday evening in Missouri after the US Supreme Court denied a stay.
Alabama puts to death Kenneth Smith in first known execution …
WEBJan 25, 2024 — Alabama on Thursday night executed Kenneth Smith, the first death row inmate known to die by nitrogen gas, marking the emergence of a wholly new method of execution in the United States that...
Alabama nitrogen gas execution reignites US ... - Associated Press News
WEBJan 26, 2024 — Alabama executed convicted murderer Smith with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again placed the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over capital punishment. Smith was convicted of the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler) Read More. 7 of 11 |.
Alabama death row inmate James Barber executed following ... - NBC News
WEBJul 21, 2023 — Alabama death row inmate James Barber was executed early Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a stay over fears that he could be subject to “substantial harm"...