Alabama sets execution for man convicted of 2010 rape and murder who asked to be put to death
The Alabama Attorney General’s Office on Feb. 11 had asked the Alabama Supreme Court to approve Osgood’s execution. The court ...
Louisiana’s Jewish community protests nitrogen gas death row executions, seeing a link to ‘the decimation of our people’
A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...
Texas court delays execution of man on death row for 32 years, days before he was set to die
A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set ...
Federal appellate court vacates Texas death row inmate’s murder conviction
State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her ...
Louisiana death row inmate seeks more ‘humane’ method of execution
A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas ...
Bill to repeal death penalty in Pa. gets bipartisan support in Legislature
The measure would remove the death penalty as a sentencing option, leaving life imprisonment without the possibility of ...
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Stay granted for Texas death row inmate two days before scheduled execution
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals did not clarify why it halted the execution of David Wood in its order granting the stay.
Texas court issues rare stay of execution for Death Row inmate who fought for DNA testing
The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.
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Woman on death row for nearly three decades has conviction overturned after shocking new information is revealed
On 27 March 1998, Brittany Holberg was sentenced to death for the robbery, torture and murder of 80-year-old Texas-local, A.