US Supreme Court rejects likely final appeal of South Carolina inmate a day before his execution
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate the day before his scheduled execution for a 2001 killing of a friend found dead in her burning car.
Florida leads America in wrongful convictions - and new death-row sentences
Florida was one of only three states to both execute someone and put more people on death row in 2024. Florida also has more wrongful convictions than any other state.
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Texas legislators seek more protections for death penalty defendants in wake of Trump executive order
Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...
Aiden Fucci, serving life sentence for St. Johns teen slaying, is moved to new prison
Aiden Fucci, who at 14 stabbed to death his friend Tristyn Bailey in St. Johns County, has been transferred to another ...
Cape, Island tribal members on Leonard Peltier commutation. 'Didn't want to die in prison'
Peltier is expected to be released from U.S. Penitentiary Federal Correctional Complex in Coleman, Florida, in mid-February.
'I did not do it': South Carolina man set for execution argues innocence, racial bias
Marion Bowman Jr. is set to be executed on Friday for the shooting death of Kandee Martin in 2001. Martin's body was found in ...
Sado-masochistic couple murdered and dismembered victim, court told
Steve Sansom was out on life licence when he killed Sarah Mayhew, 38, and dumped her remains in south London last spring.
Inside 45 hours of chaos: The brief life and quick death of Trump’s federal spending freeze
The withdrawal of the federal freeze was a stunning about-face for President Donald Trump’s White House, which has so far ...