Alabama Death Row inmate Toforest Johnson’s lawyers push for new trial after Steve Marshall’s ‘alarming’ actions
Toforest Johnson has always maintained his innocence, and the DA is unsure of his conviction. But Alabama Attorney General ...
Lethal injection drug makes poor excuse to bring back Indiana's death penalty
The sustained decline of the death penalty is not explained merely by procedural problems. The death penalty’s biased ...
What’s next for former Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip after the Supreme Court ordered he receive a new trial
After nearly three decades maintaining his innocence on Oklahoma’s death row, Richard Glossip this week now has the ...
Supreme Court orders new trial for death row inmate Glossip
Richard Glossip’s Supreme Court case became a focal point in the national debate over the death penalty, which critics say is ...
Alabama governor commutes death row inmate’s sentence to life in prison
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers to life in prison Friday, saying there were enough ...
Supreme Court orders new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate
Prosecutors' errors violated the constitutional rights of Richard Glossip when he was tried and convicted of murder, so he ...
He’s had three ‘last meals’ on Oklahoma’s death row. The Supreme Court has now tossed his conviction
A death row inmate in Oklahoma who has been scheduled for execution nine separate times and been fed three “last meals” has ...
Supreme Court orders new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate in closely watched case
The Supreme Court gave an Oklahoma death row inmate a new chance in the high-profile 1997 murder case. Clarence Thomas and ...
YNW Melly’s Trials Highlight Florida’s Unconstitutional Death Penalty Law
Melly could be sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury — a practice with deep roots in Jim Crow — if convicted in a double ...
Death penalty opponents file suit to save Jessie Hoffman
As the governor and others try to fulfill promises that the state will resume executing those awaiting the death penalty, ...
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Anti-death penalty group wants more than clemency for convicted Alabama killer Rocky Myers
Those who had been pushing for that clemency are also shocked the governor granted the first death sentence commutation in Alabama this century. Abraham Bonowitz with the group, Death Penalty Action.