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March 21, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - The tragic story of Jerome Murdough—a homeless Harlem man who was arrested for trespassing and literally baked…
March 19, 2014
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma court on Tuesday rescheduled a pair of executions set for this week and next…
March 4, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Later this month will officially mark 70 years since George Stinney Jr. was first accused of murdering…
February 25, 2014
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man convicted of abducting, raping and killing a Kansas City teenager in 1989 will be…
February 11, 2014
OLYMPIA, Washington (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday he was suspending the use of thedeath penalty in Washington state,…
January 22, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A child psychiatrist said it was her professional opinion that George Stinney Jr.'s alleged confession was "coerced,…
January 21, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A hearing to determine whether or not an executed teen deserves a new trial ended without a…
December 5, 2013
theGRIO VIDEO - Wilford 'Johnny' Hunter tells theGrio.com's Todd Johnson he was serving time for car theft in a South…
November 29, 2013
VIDEO - The events leading to the execution of 14-year-old George Stinney, Jr., began in the tiny mill town of…
November 19, 2013
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist who targeted blacks and Jews in a cross-country killing…
November 15, 2013
ST. LOUIS (AP) — No one knows exactly how many atrocities Joseph Paul Franklin committed as he crossed the country…
November 12, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - On June 16, 1944, 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. became the youngest person executed in the 20th century...
October 30, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - And while a majority, 60 percent, still favor capital punishment, over the last twenty years there has…
October 18, 2013
theGRIO REVIEW - Troy Davis became a symbol for supporters working to abolish America's death penalty, and 'I Am Troy…
October 9, 2013
NBC NEWS - Just two percent of counties in the United States are responsible for more than half of the…
August 5, 2013
STARKE, Florida (AP) - Lawyers for 65-year-old John Errol Ferguson contend their client is mentally ill and has suffered from…
August 2, 2013
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The nation's most active death penalty state is running out of its execution drug...
July 15, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Hundreds of protesters are expected to rally across Georgia later today in support of an African-American death-row…
July 11, 2013
MSNBC - Without a legal miracle, two-time killer Warren Lee Hill Jr. will be put to death next week despite…
June 26, 2013
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Texas marked a solemn moment in criminal justice Wednesday evening, executing its 500th inmate since it…