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