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 .