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  • A Texas court rejected a ruling that a woman on death row is innocent in the killing of her 2-year-old daughter in a case that attracted bipartisan calls from lawmakers and celebrities to release her .

  • Utah prosecutors are dropping their plan to seek the death penalty in an upcoming retrial of a Utah man who spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing in which newly analyzed DNA evidence did not .

  • On Wednesday, the Utah County Attorney’s Office announced that they will no longer be seeking the death penalty against Douglas Carter, accused of killing Provo resident .

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  • In a rare and largely unprecedented move for a death penalty case, Tomasz Kosowski represented himself, waiving his right to a jury trial and allowing a judge in to decide his fate.

  • In two weeks, a Pinellas County Judge will take an important step in deciding the fate of Tomasz Kosowski, a former plastic surgeon convicted of murdering an opposing attorney in his civil case, .

  • Texas and Georgia are each planning to execute inmates within an hour of each other on Wednesday.

  • A Lake County jury is weighing whether Vickie Lynn Williams should receive life without parole or death for the Mount Dora couple’s murders.

  • Tennessee’s sole female death row inmate, Christa Pike, is set to be the first woman executed in the state in more than 200 years.

  • Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty for allegedly killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson when his case goes to trial later this year, a federal judge ruled Friday, throwing out two .

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