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Full coverage of the death penalty and capital punishment in the United States and breaking news about prison inmate executions and lethal injection protocols.
Jan 25, 2024 · Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith executed with nitrogen gas, marking the emergence of a wholly new method of capital punishment. By Dakin Andone, Isabel Rosales and Christina Maxouris, CNN. 7...
Mar 14, 2023 · Published 5:28 PM PDT, March 13, 2023. The first federal capital case tried under President Joe Biden ended with a split among jurors that means the life of an Islamic extremist who killed eight people in a New York City will be spared. It came at a rare federal death penalty trial in a state without the death penalty.
News about Capital Punishment, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Oct 10, 2022 · 10 October 2022 Human Rights. Marking the 20th World Day Against the Death Penalty, two UN-appointed independent human rights experts on Monday issued a statement recalling that under international...
May 14, 2024 · New DPIC Report Traces Ohio’s History of Racial Violence to the Modern Use of Capital Punishment in the State. On Tuesday, the Death Penalty Information Center released a new report that connects Ohio’s racial history to the modern use of the death penalty in the state.
Dec 16, 2022 · CNN — The use and imposition of the death penalty in America saw a continued decline in 2022 as polls showed public support for capital punishment stayed near historic lows, according to a...