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Last meal of death row inmate revealed after South Carolina’s first execution in 13 years

Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, previously known as Freddie Owens, died by lethal injection at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia

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Missouri inmate with innocence claim appeals to Supreme Court ahead of September 24 execution

Marcellus Williams, 55, avoided execution at last minute in 2017

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Buddhist death row inmate backed by Oprah vows to fight on after losing bid to overturn conviction

California inmate Jarvis Jay Masters plans to appeal rejection in federal court

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Death row inmate expected to be resentenced to life without parole in Missouri

Despite expected resentencing, Marcellus Williams will continue campaign to prove innocence

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Alabama death row inmate asks for no autopsy after execution due to his religion

Keith Gavin’s attorneys said the filing is not an attempt to stop the execution from going ahead

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US ranks in top 5 countries with most executions

Executions were up 33 per cent in the US in 2023

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Advocates demand Democratic governor empty death row before leaving office

State’s death row – and list of exonerees – is disproportionately filled with people of colour

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Oklahoma executes double killer despite clemency recommendation

Phillip Dean Hancock, 59, received a three-drug lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary for the 2001 killings of Robert Jett Jr and James Lynch

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Sister Helen Prejean sues Louisiana officials over ‘secret’ settlement to slow death penalty appeals

Settlement by state leaders would slow most death penalty clemency appeals

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Tree of Life synagogue shooter is too delusional to get death penalty, defence argues

Prosecutors say shooter showed meticulous planning

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Bryan Kohberger could face the firing squad for the Idaho murders. What would this mean?

A recent change in Idaho state law now means he could face the firing squad if convicted of the Idaho college murders

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Missouri jurors sentenced Michael Tisius to die for killing prison guards. So why did they change their mind?

Execution scheduled for Tuesday

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South Carolina legislature passes ‘barbaric’ law shielding identity of lethal injection drugmakers

The fate of the bills will impact the larger ways capital punishment is administered in the state

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DeSantis signs law making Florida state with lowest threshold for death penalty in US

Florida has high level of exonerations from death row

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Oklahoma denies death row inmate Richard Glossip’s appeal for new trial, despite backing from attorney general

Glossip can still seek clemency at state parole board

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Supreme Court rules that death row inmate Rodney Reed can seek DNA testing as he tries to prove innocence

Reed was sentenced to death in Texas in 1998

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Florida dramatically loosens death penalty requirements after Nikolas Cruz sentencing

Florida will soon no longer require unanimous jury recommendations for judges to impose death penalty sentences

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Florida executes ‘Ninja Killer’ Louis Gaskin for double murder as DeSantis increases the rate of executions

Florida has executed a man known as the “ninja killer” for the 1989 slayings of a couple visiting the state from New Jersey

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Divided jury ensures Biden admin won’t hand out first death sentence in NYC bike path killer case

Militant convicted of killing eight people and injuring others in 2017 attack

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Man executed for killing wife and her daughter tells family to ‘forgive me and move on’ in dying statement

Texas has executed Gary Green for fatally stabbing his estranged wife and drowning her 6-year-old daughter in a bathtub nearly 14 years ago

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Alex Murdaugh avoided death sentence because of ‘racial and class privilege,’ observers say

Murdaugh family has presided for generations over South Carolina courts

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Shock as Tennessee Republican suggests lynching-style hangings as execution method

State has long history of lynchings

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Texas death row inmate who cut out his eyes seeks clemency citing ‘psychosis’

Attorneys for a mentally ill Texas death row prisoner, along with faith leaders and mental health professionals are working to stop his 5 April execution, saying he'll never be sufficiently competent to be put to death

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Ron DeSantis wants to make it much easier for juries to sentence people to death

State currently requires unanimous decision before death sentence

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Joe Biden called for an end to executions. So why is his DoJ seeking it in the case of Sayfullo Saipov?

Biden administration has offered mixed signals on capital punishment

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