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  • The death penalty is a stain on our values as Californians, and we must finally stop perpetuating cycles of punishment and violence and instead invest in healing and rehabilitation.

  • Alabama made headlines earlier this year after using nitrogen hypoxia to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith in January.

  • In the state’s closing arguments jurors were treated to the spectacle of the prosecutor in Brenda’s case, Gayland Gieger, hauling a suitcase toward the jury box, from which he extracted a pair of her .

  • Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price said all of the California county’s death penalty cases are under review after a member of her office found evidence that prosecutors in a 30-year-old .

  • Karen Conti, a lawyer who represented serial killer John Wayne Gacy during his last death row appeals, said she believes Gacy killed dozens more .

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  • California has more people on death row than any other state in the country — and a governor who opposes capital punishment.

  • Florida prosecutors may seek the death penalty in the case against Patricia Ripley, accused of the first-degree murder of her son Alejandro.

  • San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus Releases Message Regarding Public Safety and Recent Developments in the Realignment of Death Row Inmates .

  • After the jury deliberated for about seven hours over two days, Paige Terrell Lawyer was sentenced for his capital murder conviction in the 2018 killings.

  • It is already clear that the return of the death penalty in Russia in any form could pose a significant threat to Ukrainian citizens.

  • A judge has ordered a review of all death penalty cases from Alameda County following the discovery of prosecutors' notes that appear to show the illegal exclusion of Jewish and Black female jurors .