Death Penalty

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September 15, 2011
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Forty-eight-year-old Duane Buck is scheduled for lethal injection Thursday evening for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend a…
September 14, 2011
TheGRIO REPORT - The NAACP on Wednesday announced its next steps in the civil rights organization's drive to stop the…
September 14, 2011
JACKSON, MISS (AP) - Barbara Anderson Young's brother was run over and killed by a pickup truck in Jackson on…
September 14, 2011
theGRIO REPORT -- The NAACP has joined other rights organizations in pushing for a stay of execution for George death…
September 8, 2011
SIMI VALLEY, California (AP) - When Perry defended capital punishment, he drew strong applause from the scores of people in…
September 8, 2011
OPINION - President Obama's intervention in the Troy Davis case would signal, above all else, his commitment to justice for…
September 7, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia corrections officials have set an execution date for a high-profile death row inmate who claims he's…
August 19, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Nearly a quarter-century after the NCAA's harshest sanction destroyed SMU's football program, the allegations swirling at Miami…
August 19, 2011
JARRATT, Va. (AP) - Jerry Terrell Jackson, 30, was pronounced dead at 9:14 p.m. Thursday at Greensville Correctional Center...
August 18, 2011
MIAMI - The NCAA used the death penalty only once, against Southern Methodist University's football team in 1987. No team…
August 1, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman told a court her office will ask a jury for the…
July 13, 2011
NEWS ONE - African-American Iraq War veteran, Courtney Lockhart, will now be sentenced to death instead of the life imprisonment…
July 1, 2011
MONTICELLO, Miss. - After 10 years of incarceration, and seven years after a jury sentenced him to die, 30-year-old Cory…
July 1, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - On Friday, a ban that Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law in March took effect...
June 22, 2011
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A man convicted of fatally shooting two people inside a Houston drug house has been executed…
April 27, 2011
OPINION - Anti-death penalty advocates have long argued that Abu-Jamal's 1982 trial was unfair, and that the application of the…
April 26, 2011
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The 58-year-old former Black Panther's first-degree murder conviction still stands in the fatal shooting of white officer…
April 26, 2011
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - David Bahati says if the committee the bill currently sits before recommends that the provision be…
April 11, 2011
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A man being executed for beating and stomping to death a fellow inmate in a jailhouse…
March 10, 2011
VIDEO - After the beating death of 18-year-old Bobby Tillman, the Douglas County District Attorney has given the four young…