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March 12, 2014
ANGOLA, Louisiana (AP) — A man who spent nearly 26 years on death row in Louisiana walked free of prison…
February 26, 2014
BONNE TERRE, Missouri (AP) - Michael Taylor, 47, who was convicted of abducting, raping and killing a 15-year-old girl as…
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 27, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - ATLANTA - Anthony Graves, a Texas man who has freed after 18 years of wrongful imprisonment, was…
January 9, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Perhaps chalk this rumor up to wishful thinking or you could argue it's too surreal not to…
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 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…
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…
June 17, 2013
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A U.S. woman who became the country's youngest death row inmate at age 16, sparking protests, after…
June 7, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - This legislative action may pave the way for the number of executions to increase in the state,…
May 7, 2013
PARCHMAN, Miss. - Attorneys for a death row inmate convicted of killing two college students in 1992 are hoping that…
May 6, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - A Mississippi inmate has been denied requests for DNA testing and he is set to be executed…
February 20, 2013
JACKSON, Georgia (AP) — A U.S. appeals court halted the execution Tuesday of a Georgia man who killed a fellow…
December 14, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A North Carolina judge voided the death sentences of three convicted murderers yesterday, two of whom were…
November 30, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The NAACP is stepping up its fight to end the death penalty in the state of Maryland…
October 8, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Texas attorney James Rytting is attempting to postpone the execution of his client, Johnathan Green, claiming his…
September 28, 2012
PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia judge has halted Wednesday's scheduled execution of death-row inmate Terrance "Terry" Williams and granted him a…