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June 7, 2016
Bobby Moore has served 35 years in prison for murdering a grocery store clerk during a robbery when he was
April 13, 2016
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The defense is asking for a delay in the state death-penalty trial of a man charged
April 13, 2016
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The defense is asking for a delay in the state death-penalty trial of a man charged
March 14, 2016
During a Democratic town hall, presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was asked about her pro-death penalty stance by a man who
February 14, 2016
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is dead at 79. The influential conservative jurist was found dead of apparent natural causes
November 27, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is making a hard case for overhauling the U.S. criminal justice system, but where…
November 1, 2015
Why is #BlackLivesMatter going after Hillary Clinton, and what must she do? The goal is to make sure that she…
June 28, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A Texas man who served 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit now has…
April 24, 2015
OPINION - Where have all the brothers gone? The numbers are staggering. According to a report in The New York…
January 27, 2015
ATLANTA (AP) — A 54-year-old man who has come within hours of execution three times in recent years is scheduled…
December 31, 2014
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley announced on Monday that he will commute all remaining death sentences to life without parole. The
December 17, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - On June 16, 1944, 14-year-old George Stinney, Jr. became the youngest person executed in the United States…
December 3, 2014
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — UAB is shutting down the football program after one of the Blazers' stronger seasons, the first…
November 24, 2014
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett signed the death warrant for former Philadelphia rapper Cool C, who was involved in a bank
September 15, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A man who was convicted of two 2008 murders during multiple Dunkin' Donuts robberies in South Florida,…
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…
April 30, 2014
McALESTER, Oklahoma (AP) — Oklahoma prison officials halted an inmate's execution after a new drug combination left the man writhing…
March 27, 2014
OPINION - As President Obama prepares to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday, can the pontiff’s popularity…