Capital Punishment

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July 5, 2022
The DOJ is considering whether to seek the death penalty against the Buffalo suspect accused of murdering 10 African Americans.
Julius Jones
November 18, 2021
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt commuted the death sentence of condemned inmate Julius Jones on Thursday, hours before his scheduled execution.
January 16, 2021
The number of federal death sentences carried out under Trump since 2020 is more than in the previous 56 years…
Bill Barr thegrio.com
November 28, 2020
Federal officials are making moves to expand the ways that federal death row inmates can be killed before Joe Biden…
capital punishment
July 18, 2020
Capital Punishment on the rise as Prisoners are being executed via lethal injection with a drug derived from barbituric acid.
george stinney, george stinney electric chair, george stinney death, thegrio.com
June 16, 2020
The heartbreaking story of George Stinney, a 14-year-old boy who was wrongfully executed by South Carolina for a crime he…
March 13, 2020
Pamela Woods confronted Gov. Kay Ivey on Thursday, a week after the state's chief executive allowed his execution despite desperate…
March 7, 2020
We’re 20 years into the 21st century, and we still have to deal with the continued existence of the McRib,
March 5, 2020
Nathaniel Woods was executed on Thursday night just hours after the Supreme Court had initially granted a temporary stay, but
death penalty thegrio.com
December 17, 2019
Statistics show the death penalty fading in particular regions so much so that fewer than 30 executions have taken place…
Ayanna Pressley thegrio.com AP
July 26, 2019
The Massachusetts lawmaker was swift in her response to the new policy which will move federal capital punishment back into…
Adobe Stock
April 12, 2019
Tiffany Moss, who could be executed for the starvation death of her daughter, say she is taking her trust from…
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October 12, 2018
Washington State’s Supreme Court banned the death penalty ruling it unconstitutional because of it's ties to racial bias.
Donald Trump thegrio.com
March 19, 2018
President Trump believes that executing drug dealers will somehow solve the opiate crisis, so he has proposed imposing the death…
October 20, 2017
On Thursday, an Alabama man who was accused of killing a cop in 1997 was put to death via lethal…
May 27, 2014
NBC News -- The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a law used by Florida and other states that set…
May 23, 2014
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As the rest of the nation debates the feasibility and humanity of lethal injections against a…
May 14, 2014
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court halted a convicted Texas killer's scheduled execution Tuesday so his attorneys can…
May 2, 2014
AP - Some of the three drugs used in a botched Oklahoma execution this week didn't enter the inmate's system…
April 30, 2014
McALESTER, Oklahoma (AP) — Oklahoma prison officials halted an inmate's execution after a new drug combination left the man writhing…