No more death row executions until January, SC Supreme Court decides
South Carolina will not carry out any more executions until at least January, the state Supreme Court ruled in a Thursday ...
Mississippi death row inmate once again seeks to have death sentence vacated
Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-tenured death row inmate, filed court documents asking for post-conviction ...
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Biden Must Use Final Months in Office to Commute Federal Death Sentences
In our series on how Biden can use the lame duck period to secure civil liberties and civil rights, we examine how Biden can ...
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Texas lawmakers target property taxes, abortion and gender transition care in first bills for the 2025 session
Lawmakers in the Texas House and Senate filed more than a thousand pieces of legislation Tuesday, offering an early look at ...
ACLU petition calls on Biden to ‘commute all federal death sentences’ before Trump takes office
An American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) petition is calling on President Biden “to commute all federal death sentences” ...
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How disagreements about a Texas death row inmate’s guilt became a legal battle between branches of government
The Supreme Court of Texas is weighing whether death row inmate Robert Roberson — whose capital punishment was temporarily halted last month — must testify before a Texas House committee ...
‘Tell me exactly what happened’: Digging into Robert Roberson’s trial, hearing transcripts
The Dallas Morning News read roughly 3,000 pages of court documents from Roberson’s guilt-innocence trial, punishment phase, ...
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Appeals court reinstates incriminating statements in Dallas capital murder case
AUSTIN — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday reversed a ... The ruling restores statements Sedrick Johnson made ...