Capital Punishment

The Capital Punishment section covers all things related to the death penalty — from legal decisions to ethical considerations.

Full list of Capital Punishment results

5th condemned Tenn. inmate opts for the electric chair
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Nicholas Sutton is the fifth inmate in a little over a year to choose electrocution over lethal injection
Ga. board gives clemency to death row inmate hours before execution
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Jimmy Meders had been scheduled for lethal injection for the October 1987 killing of a convenience store clerk
Ga. set to execute man convicted of killing store clerk
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Jimmy Fletcher Meders is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday evening
Texas inmate to be executed for killing wife in 2005
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John Gardner is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday night
Ark. inmate cites mental illness in death penalty appeal
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Karl Roberts was convicted of capital murder in the killing of his niece, 12-year-old Andria Brewer, in 1999
Judge denies DNA test for Ga. inmate facing execution
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A judge refused Wednesday to order DNA tests on a gun used to kill a convenience store cashier more than 30 years ago
Hearing to be held on Ga. death row inmate's request for DNA test
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A judge will hear arguments on whether to order testing on evidence from the 1980s in a killing for which a death row inmate is scheduled to be executed next week
Report: 5th straight year with under 30 executions in US
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Twenty of the 22 executions in 2019 took place in five Southern states
SD upholds sentence of state's only death row inmate
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Briley Piper will still be executed despite allegations his defense attorneys didn't counsel him properly
Texas inmate executed for killing CO in 2003
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Travis Runnels was executed by lethal injection
Texas inmate faces execution for killing prison supervisor
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Travis Runnels is facing lethal injection for the 2003 killing of Stanley Wiley
Supreme Court keeps federal executions on hold
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The justices blocked the Trump administration from resuming federal executions after a 16-year break
Blind Tenn. inmate executed for woman's 1991 killing
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Lee Hall chose the electric chair over the state's preferred execution method of lethal injection
Texas death row appeal centers around comedian's video
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Defense lawyers for Gabriel Hall argued a jury shouldn't have seen his 2015 interview on Comedy Central
DOJ would take blocked executions to Supreme Court
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A lawsuit stalled the first federal executions since 2003 has hampered the Attorney General's office
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