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Exclusive | Victim’s shattered kin wants Biden to ‘explain to our faces’ stunning death-row Christmas clemency
President Biden needs to explain his death-sentence commutations “to our faces,” says the furious brother of a young female naval…
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Biden commutes death sentences of child killers and mass murderers 2 days before Christmas
They weren’t run over by a reindeer. President Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 men on…
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Man convicted of quadruple homicide is put to death in Indiana’s 1st execution in 15 years
An Indiana man convicted of killing four people including his brother and his sister’s fiancé decades ago was put to…
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Christopher Collings’ last words, meal before execution in 2007 rape, murder of 9-year-old girl revealed
A Missouri inmate was executed Tuesday for the 2007 rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl who knew him as…
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Alabama set to carry out nation’s third nitrogen gas execution; Carey Grayson was one of 4 teens who killed hitchhiker in 1994
An Alabama prisoner convicted of the 1994 murder of a female hitchhiker is slated to become the third person executed…
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Fla. businessman charged with murder, could face death penalty after estranged wife vanished from Spain home
A Florida businessman was indicted with murdering his estranged wife who vanished from her apartment in Spain more than nine…
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Could Berlin have saved Jamshid Sharmahd from execution in Iran?
This article was originally published in German Following the execution of the German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd, the German government has been accused…
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Robert Roberson absent from hearing before Texas lawmakers after his execution was halted
Texas lawmakers were expected to hear testimony at the state Capitol on Monday from Robert Roberson, a death row inmate…
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Japan court acquits longest-serving death row inmate in murder retrial
The former boxer was convicted of murder in the 1966 killing of a company manager and three of his family…
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Missouri Supreme Court, governor refuse to halt execution of man convicted in 1998 killing of social worker
The execution of a Missouri man convicted in a 1998 murder of a social worker is set to proceed as…
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