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Tennessee death row inmate to be executed despite new DNA evidence of unidentified person on murder weapon

DNA and a fingerprint belonging to an unidentified person has been found on one of the murder weapons, according to Oscar Smith’s attorneys

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Texas prosecutor refuses to impose ‘unethical’ death penalty days after requesting killer’s execution date

Nueces County District Attorney Mark Gonzalez explains change of heart over execution of man convicted of stabbing store clerk 29 times in 2004

The Independent UK

How does execution by firing squad work in South Carolina

Richard Moore set to die by method later this month for murder of convenience store worker

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Tennessee death row inmate seeks to halt execution next week over DNA evidence

Oscar Smith, 71, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on 21 April

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Majority of Texas Senators urge state to stop ‘miscarriage of justice’ Melissa Lucio execution

Majority of both chambers of the Texas legislature now oppose execution

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GOP lawmaker says even death penalty supporters see ‘major problem’ in Melissa Lucio case

Texas State Reps Jeff Leach and Joe Moody were part of a bipartisan group of lawmakers who visited Melissa Lucio on death row last week as they call for her life to be spared

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Nun who wrote ‘Dead Man Walking’ joins calls to save Melissa Lucio from execution

Melissa Lucio is scheduled to be executed on 27 April over the death of her two-year-old daughter which her attorneys insist was ‘a tragedy, not a murder’

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Melissa Lucio ‘a symbol of wrongful convictions,’ documentary director says as execution approaches

Director Sabrina Van Tassel tells Josh Marcus about award-winning Melissa Lucio documentary and impact of Kim Kardashian’s activism on case

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Why Kim Kardashian and others are rallying to stop the ‘tragic’ execution of Melissa Lucio in Texas

Supporters ranging from Kim Kardashian to Texas Republicans calling for halt to execution, Josh Marcus reports

The Independent UK

Women on death row: How being a ‘bad mother, bad wife and bad woman’ became a death warrant

Women are vastly outnumbered by men on death row across America. But experts say the small number who are sentenced to death usually break society’s expectations of a ‘good woman’, Rachel Sharp reports

The Independent UK

Juror who sentenced Melissa Lucio to death for daughter’s murder calls for retrial: ‘I was wrong’

Melissa Lucio is scheduled for execution on April 27 for beating her daughter to death

The Independent UK

‘Barbarous’: Activists dismayed as South Carolina completes firing squad chamber to resume executions

Just four states use firing squads

The Independent UK

Mother on death row for daughter’s death asks for clemency as execution date looms

Melissa Lucio was sentenced to death after being convicted of killing her two-year-old daughter Mariah

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