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July 15, 2025
Michael Bernard Bell, convicted of multiple murders is set to be executed Tuesday—marking the 26th execution in the U.S. this…
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January 3, 2025
Days after announcing a new manual for executing death row inmates, Tennessee's top prison officials said they aren't going to release…
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January 25, 2023
Oklahoma’s new attorney general, Gentner Drummond, had requested at least 60 days between executions, instead of 30 days, because he said carrying…
December 1, 2022
Kevin Johnson, who died by lethal injection, was convicted in the murder of an officer he blamed for the death…
September 21, 2022
Alabama wants to execute prisoners with a new, untested method of capital punishment called nitrogen hypoxia.
April 8, 2022
Richard Bernard Moore has been on death row for over 20 years after he was convicted of killing a convenience…
January 26, 2021
The shocking discovery was uncovered from hundreds of posts and comments from Greene's page that were reviewed by CNN.
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December 17, 2019
Statistics show the death penalty fading in particular regions so much so that fewer than 30 executions have taken place…
March 28, 2017
Remember the name Aramis Ayala. She is a black woman and a Florida prosecutor who is taking a stand against
February 27, 2017
North Korea leader Kim Jong Un is accused of ordering the executions of security officials, days after allegedly ordering assassination…
June 7, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - This legislative action may pave the way for the number of executions to increase in the state,…
May 8, 2013
PARCHMAN, Miss. - Death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning will have another chance to prove his innocence in the murders…
July 3, 2012
North Carolina Republican lawmakers have voted to override a veto of a law that will place limits on death-row inmates'…
March 14, 2012
PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona is on pace to match its busiest year for executions since establishing the death penalty in…
December 21, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - For the first time death sentences dropped to below a 100 in a single year, which is…
October 17, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - A face to the wronged and falsely accused is how activists describe the fuel for the firestorm…
October 14, 2011
Sixty-one percent of Americans approve of using the death penalty for persons convicted of murder, down from 64 percent last…
October 4, 2011
VIDEO - Wendell Pierce, star of HBO's Treme and the hit series The Wire, is making sure that the public…
October 4, 2011
SLIDESHOW - George Stinney's life ended at the age of 14. The young boy was convicted of killing two white…
October 1, 2011
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Friends and supporters of Troy Davis, the convicted murderer who was executed in Georgia last week…