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4 days ago · CINCINNATI, Ohio (WKBN) — A man convicted in a 2001 Trumbull County murder who is sitting on death row could be resentenced. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled in favor of...
2 days ago · Death penalty for murder; treason and crimes against the State. Judges usually impose death penalty in case of multiple homicides; death sentence for a single murder is not particularly common. Between 1946 and 2003, 766 people were sentenced to death, 608 of whom were executed.
1 day ago · As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. [1] 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). [2]
5 days ago · A Tennessee woman was sentenced to life in prison after she pleaded no contest to murder and child abuse charges in the death of her boyfriend’s 5-year-old son. Turner Simpkins was found dead in his home in Chapmansboro in July 2023, The Tennessean reported.
4 days ago · The investigation on the days after Laci's disappearance is outlined in American Murder: Laci Peterson, focusing on the steps they took to hone in on Scott Peterson as the murderer.
6 days ago · Alabama, in a dubious first, executed Smith Thursday evening with nitrogen gas, a novel end run around a de facto moratorium on the death penalty imposed by drug manufacturers that wanted no...
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