A death row reprieve in Mississsippi

Monica Land

PARCHMAN, Miss. - Death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning will have another chance to prove his innocence in the murders of two college students more than two decades ago after the Mississippi Supreme Court voted eight to one to grant him a stay of execution...

NC legislators override race bias death row veto

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North Carolina Republican lawmakers have voted to override a veto of a law that will place limits on death-row inmates' ability to use evidence of racial bias to challenge the court's ruling of their fate.

AZ on pace to match busiest year for executions

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PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona is on pace to match its busiest year for executions since establishing the death penalty in 1910 and be among the busiest death-penalty states in the nation...

Drop in death penalties may save black lives

Kunbi Tinuoye

theGRIO REPORT - For the first time death sentences dropped to below a 100 in a single year, which is the lowest since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, leading some death penalty critics to say this will keep more black inmates alive...

Did Troy Davis change death penalty opinion?

Amelia McGriff

theGRIO REPORT - A face to the wronged and falsely accused is how activists describe the fuel for the firestorm of awareness that ensued before Davis execution...

Gallup: US support for death penalty falls to 39-year low

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Sixty-one percent of Americans approve of using the death penalty for persons convicted of murder, down from 64 percent last year...

Star of HBO's 'Treme' backs play on George Stinney, Jr.

Tamy Cozier

VIDEO - Wendell Pierce, star of HBO's Treme and the hit series The Wire, is making sure that the public at large knows the story of George Stinney, Jr.-- the youngest person executed in the US...

Slideshow: George Stinney, youngest executed in 20th century

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SLIDESHOW - George Stinney's life ended at the age of 14. The young boy was convicted of killing two white girls in Alcolu, South Carolina in 1944...

Friends, advocates remember Troy Davis

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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Friends and supporters of Troy Davis, the convicted murderer who was executed in Georgia last week despite emotional pleas for his life, remembered him Friday night as a gentle man who faced his execution with grace and dignity...

Troy Davis execution fuels eyewitness ID debate

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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Davis' execution outraged hundreds of thousands of people who said they feared an innocent man was being put to death...

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A death row reprieve in Mississsippi

NC legislators override race bias death row veto

AZ on pace to match busiest year for executions

Drop in death penalties may save black lives

Did Troy Davis change death penalty opinion?

Gallup: US support for death penalty falls to 39-year low

Star of HBO's 'Treme' backs play on George Stinney, Jr.

Slideshow: George Stinney, youngest executed in 20th century

Friends, advocates remember Troy Davis

Troy Davis execution fuels eyewitness ID debate

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