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COVID-related agreement continues to shield some on Georgia’s death row from execution
‘Courts cannot rewrite contracts to relieve a party of their regrets.’
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South Carolina death row inmate seeks to volunteer to die after friends are executed
‘No ethical attorney will withdraw an appeal that will result in their client’s execution.’
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Tennessee is refusing to release its new execution manual. Here is why it matters
‘The secrecy, which cloaked the former execution protocol, created a culture of incompetence and lack of accountability.’
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Mississippi asks court to set execution for man on death row since 1976
Richard Gerald Jordan, now 78, is Mississippi’s longest-serving death row inmate.
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Mississippi asks court to set execution for man on death row since 1976
Richard Gerald Jordan is convicted of taking Edwina Marter to a forest and shooting her to death, then calling her husband saying she was safe and demanding $25,000.
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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey sets November date for next execution by nitrogen gas
Grayson’s will be the third execution by nitrogen suffocation, which opponents say could be torturous.
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Death row inmate in South Carolina resentenced to life in prison
South Carolina’s death penalty has been in limbo for 13 years since the state’s supply of lethal injection drugs expired and the pharmacy that provided them refused to continue if it couldn’t do so anonymously.
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High court passes on case of Georgia man on death row who says Black jurors were wrongly purged
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a dissent, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, saying she would send the case back to the 11th Circuit to consider King’s claims under the Batson rule without deferring to the state court findings.
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Alabama schedules second execution by nitrogen gas
In January, Alabama used nitrogen gas to execute Kenneth Smith. Smith shook and convulsed in seizure-like movements for several minutes on a gurney as he was put to death Jan. 25.
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Alabama sets July execution date for man convicted of killing delivery driver
The state is also scheduled to execute Jamie Mills by lethal injection on May 30.