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17 hours ago · Elayne Clift (elayne-clift.com) has written this column about women, politics, and social issues from the earliest days of this newspaper. BRATTLEBORO-In February this year, Texas executed a man named Ivan Cantu for murder despite the fact that evidence discovered post-trial had raised serious questions about his guilt, persuading jurors from his first trial to ask the courts to reconsider his ...
1 day ago · 2024-05-21 - BywRosiewManins rosie.manins@ajc.com. A death row inmate who fatally shot a man while fleeing from a bank robbery in Gwinnett County wants to become the first person in Georgia’s modern history to be legally executed by firing squad. Michael Nance, 62, appeared before a federal judge in Atlanta on Monday as trial began in his ...
1 day ago · May 21, 2024 10:54 AM. A death row inmate at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson is seeking execution by firing squad instead of lethal injection. A trial in his case against the prison’s warden and the commissioner of the Georgia Department of Corrections began in Atlanta on Monday. (Natrice Miller/ Natrice.miller@ajc ...
18 hours ago · Alabama has scheduled a second execution using nitrogen gas, on Sept. 26, for Alan Eugene Miller, who was convicted of killing three men during a 1999 workplace shooting. Miller has an ongoing ...
18 hours ago · The committee rejected the bill to eliminate the execution method by a vote of 8-3, along party lines. With less than two weeks left in legislative session, the measure is likely dead.
1 day ago · The shortage has forced Louisiana and other states to consider other methods, including firing squads. In January, Alabama performed the first execution using nitrogen gas, marking the first time a new execution method had been used in the United States since lethal injection, which was introduced in 1982.
3 days ago · As soon as mankind learned to shoot, it figured out how to use that power to kill. The history of shooting squads is very long, though the practice is quickl...
