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Featured Crime Court weighs legality of using firing squad for executions in South Carolina COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s highest court heard arguments Thursday on whether a newly organized firing squad or the Associated Press / January 6, 2023
Featured Crime Court goes against Texas inmates questioning execution drugs HOUSTON (AP) — Texas’ top criminal appeals court has barred a civil court judge from issuing any orders in a Associated Press / January 6, 2023
Featured Crime Transgender woman’s scheduled execution would be US first ST. LOUIS (AP) — Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first transgender woman executed Associated Press / January 3, 2023
Featured Crime Report shines new light on execution secrecy in Tennessee NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — When multiple pharmaceutical companies objected to Tennessee using their drugs to kill death row inmates several Associated Press / December 30, 2022
Featured Crime News Watch: Buffalo shooter willing to plead guilty to federal charges if death penalty is taken off table The white gunman who pled guilty to state charges in the massacre of 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket James L. Gilmore / December 28, 2022
Featured News Executions continued decline but many ‘botched’ in 2022, report says HOUSTON (AP) — Public support and use of the death penalty in 2022 continued its more than two-decade decline in Associated Press / December 18, 2022
Featured Crime Oregon governor commutes all 17 of state’s death sentences SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Tuesday that she is commuting the sentences of all of the Associated Press / December 14, 2022
