U.S. Supreme Court asked to halt execution of Florida inmate
An attorney for Edward James on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his scheduled Thursday execution in the 1993 murder of a Seminole County woman and her 8-year-old granddaughter.
Man, 50, charged with attempted murder after stabbings in Deerfield
Broward deputies found two people stabbed early Sunday in Deerfield Beach in the 200 block of SW First Terrace.
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Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions. Here are the 56 people on Angola's death row.
Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...
Tropicana juice plant shooter convicted of kidnapping Florida co-worker. What’s next?
A Florida jury convicted a Bradenton man on Friday of attempted murder and three other felonies for shooting a co-worker and ...
Prosecutors expected to seek death penalty for man in Tamarac triple murder
The death penalty is now on the table for the man charged in a horrific triple killing in a Tamarac neighborhood last month that left his estranged wife, her father and a neighbor dead.
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Judge says ‘hard row to hoe’ for Florida to justify social media ban for young teens
A federal judge on Friday told lawyers in a landmark social media case it would be a “hard row to hoe” for state ... signaling his skepticism toward the new Florida law championed by Gov.
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YNW Melly’s Trials Highlight Florida’s Unconstitutional Death Penalty Law
This story was produced in partnership with The Garrison Project, an independent, nonpartisan organization addressing the crisis of mass incarceration and policing. Cortlen Henry pulled his Jeep ...
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The story of a death row inmate, his legal case, and an Oscar nomination
Former Texas death row inmate John Henry Ramirez’s story is told in the documentary short, “I Am Ready, Warden,” which is up for an Academy Award this Sunday. The Houston attorney who won ...
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History of the Death Penalty
[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...
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U.S. Supreme Court rules Oklahoma death row inmate is entitled to new trial
Richard Glossip was convicted of murdering his boss more than twenty years ago, and has been on death row in Oklahoma ever since. Glossip has always maintained his innocence. After a years-long ...
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News Wrap: Supreme Court throws out murder conviction of Oklahoma death row inmate
In our news wrap Tuesday, the Supreme Court threw out the murder conviction of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, a Southwest Airlines plane nearly collided with a smaller jet on a runway ...
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The Supreme Court hands down a rare victory for a death row inmate
There’s too much news and too little context. At Vox, we do things differently. We focus on helping you understand what matters. We don’t obsess over being the first to break news. We focus on ...