Death Row

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February 6, 2021
The flood of federal executions that occurred in the last days of the Trump administration were potential coronavirus super spreader…
Dustin John Higgs thegrio.com
January 13, 2021
Dustin John Higgs was set to be executed this Friday but a judge has postponed the execution amid COVID-19 concerns.
January 2, 2021
A group of activists are in the midst of walking 131 miles across Oklahoma to shed light on the case…
December 13, 2020
Alfred Bourgeois, who killed his 2-year-old daughter in 2002, was put to death Friday in the second federal execution carried…
December 1, 2020
Brandon Bernard, 40, has been incarcerated since the age of 18, for a double murder committed in 1999. He's been…
Kim Kardashian
November 28, 2020
Kim Kardashian's visit to Oklahoma with death row inmate, Julius Jones, is being heralded as a big morale booster for…
December 16, 2019
A judge will determine the bond for Curtis Flowers, who has been tried six times for the murders of four…
November 12, 2018
Texas' attorney general is pushing to keep an inmate on death row despite prosecutors and defense lawyers agreeing that the…
Curtis Flowers thegrio.com
November 3, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Flowers’ latest appeal of his 2010 conviction for the quadruple murders at…
January 8, 2018
The Supreme Court ordered the federal appeals court in Atlanta to take another look at the case of Keith Leroy Tharpe,…
February 1, 2016
California's ban on the death penalty came to end in November, which has left Kevin Cooper facing execution-- even though…
June 30, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Glenn Ford, the exonerated death-row inmate who served 30 years for a crime he did not commit,…
June 28, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - A Texas man who served 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit now has…
April 4, 2015
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A man freed after nearly 30 years on Alabama’s death row said the people who played
April 2, 2015
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) — An inmate on Alabama's death row for nearly 30 years will go free after prosecutors said…
October 19, 2014
During the capital murder sentencing, through testimony of Texas state licensed psychologist Dr. Walter Quijano, Buck’s race became the centerpiece…
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 8, 2014
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's attorney general has agreed to a six-month stay of execution for a death row inmate…
March 19, 2014
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma court on Tuesday rescheduled a pair of executions set for this week and next…