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3 days ago · As of January 1, 2024, there were 2,241 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise).
Jun 7, 2024 · Death row is the part of a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after they have been sentenced to death for a capital crime. The term also applies to the status of prisoners who are awaiting execution in regions where a separate facility for housing them does not exist; nevertheless, they are referred to as ‘being on death row.’
7 hours ago · A death row inmate set for execution in Texas this week says he is not the same man he was when he raped and killed an 18-year-old woman in 2001. Ramiro Gonzales, 41, is set to be executed ...
Jun 7, 2024 · CNN — On August 9, 2018, Steven Hale stood outside a Tennessee prison as a convicted murderer inside awaited a lethal dose of a three-drug cocktail. It was the first execution of a death row...
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Jun 5, 2024 · Missouri has scheduled the execution of death row inmate Marcellus Williams, even though he was never granted a hearing for an innocence claim that some officials believe could be legitimate.
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2 days ago · Ramiro Gonzales, on death row in Texas, in June 2022. Rafael Roy. On Wednesday evening, Texas prison officials plan to execute Ramiro Gonzales, the 41-year-old who kidnapped, raped and murdered Bridget Townsend when they were both 18. The Marshall Project covered a dramatic turn in Gonzales’ murder case two years ago.
May 30, 2024 · At least 190 people have been exonerated from death row in the U.S. since 1973, largely Black and Latinx inmates who are wrongfully convicted at a higher rate than white people, according to...
