US carries out 25 executions this year as death penalty trends in nation held steady
The number of executions in the U.S. remained near historic lows in 2024 and was mostly carried out in a small group of ...
Biden’s death row orders grant justice where Supreme Court has grown hostile to claims of racial bias
OPINION: The nation’s highest court’s recent treatment of capital cases is rife with disregard for systemic racial ...
Testimony of Texas man whose execution was halted in shaken baby case is challenged again
Texas’ attorney general sought again on Thursday to stop a man on death row from testifying to lawmakers who have raised ...
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Tennessee completes lethal injection review, executions cleared to resume
There are 46 death row inmates, including one Hamilton County man, who once again may be facing execution now that the ...
'A mistake': Biden faces backlash upon commuting sentences of death row inmates
President Joe Biden's decision to commute the sentences of 37 death row inmates ignited a fierce debate about the morality of ...
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Biden spares federal death row inmates: Murderers targeted sailor, young girls, law enforcement
The inmates on federal death row whose lives were spared by President ... in December 2007 "after they ‘disrespected’ his gang signs by calling them ‘fake,’" according to federal prosecutors.
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Death Penalty Fast Facts
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 23 people were executed in the United States in 2023. The number of death sentences imposed was 21. There are 2,180 people on death row in the United ...