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September 18, 2012
(AP) - Once on Florida's death row, Joseph Green Brown was released from jail after an appeals court overturned his…
September 10, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - For convicted Cobby County killer and death row inmate Marcus Wellons an "erotically shaped chocolates" gift from…
August 23, 2012
BANJUL, Gambia (AP) - Gambia's president says he has vowed to start executing by mid-September all of the country's inmates…
August 7, 2012
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the Tuesday evening execution of a Texas death…
August 1, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - While executions in the state of Texas aren’t necessarily newsworthy, as the state executes convicted criminals at…
July 19, 2012
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A Texas man convicted of carjacking and fatally shooting a stockbroker was put to death Wednesday...
July 3, 2012
North Carolina Republican lawmakers have voted to override a veto of a law that will place limits on death-row inmates'…
June 6, 2012
PARCHMAN, Mississippi (AP) - A Mississippi man convicted of killing four young nieces and nephews in a 1990 stabbing rampage…
June 5, 2012
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - Two women who asked Mississippi's governor Phil Bryant to spare their brother from execution, even though…
April 20, 2012
Death Row impresario Suge Knight is doing his part to keep those pesky Tupac Shakur conspiracy theories alive...
April 20, 2012
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- A condemned killer's trial was so tainted by the racially influenced decisions of prosecutors that he…
April 6, 2012
Linda Carty was sentenced to death by lethal injection 11 years ago after killing a young woman with the intent…
April 5, 2012
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A proposal to abolish capital punishment in Connecticut has cleared a major hurdle with approval from…
April 3, 2012
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal has lost his last legal appeal...
March 19, 2012
At the SXSW Music and Media Event in Austin, Texas, rapper Nas sits down with marketing executive Steve Stoute and…
February 14, 2012
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Some state lawmakers are reviving a push to end Connecticut's death penalty, hoping for an easier…
February 9, 2012
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Rap music mogul Marion 'Suge' Knight is facing a March court date in Las Vegas following…
January 29, 2012
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal has been moved into the general prison population for the first…
January 4, 2012
Wright was sentenced to death twice for the fatal shooting of 66-year-old amputee, Phillip Seifert, a liquor store clerk, during…
December 21, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - For the first time death sentences dropped to below a 100 in a single year, which is…