'Better off without it': Washington closes execution chamber at state penitentiary
Fourteen years after the last death sentence was carried out in Washington, the execution chamber at the state penitentiary ...
U.S. reaches 1,600 executions since death penalty was reinstated
Alan Eugene Miller’s execution was the fifth in the last week, drawing national scrutiny to convictions and execution ...
US Reaches Executions Milestone Amid Declining Support for Death Penalty
"All the data indicates that the American public is increasingly uncomfortable with use of the death penalty, yet elected ...
There are 5 executions set over a week's span in the US — that's the most in decades
Experts say five executions being scheduled within one week is simply an anomaly that resulted from courts or elected ...
World’s longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japanese retrial
In a retrial that began after he spent 45 years on death row, 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was found not guilty of a 1966 ...
Alabama executes second death row inmate by nitrogen hypoxia
Alabama conducted the United States' second execution with the use of nitrogen gas on Thursday evening, finally killing Alan ...
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A death chamber goes dark in Washington state
The end of capital punishment in Washington is complicated because of the heinousness of the crimes. Some prosecutors argued ...
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"Death chamber" permanently closed at State Penitentiary in Walla Walla
WALLA WALLA, Wash.-The "death chamber" at the Washington "State Penitentiary where inmates sentenced to death were executed, ...
As another U.S. state closes its execution chamber, Trump muses about expanding use of death penalty
Washington state is closing its death chamber this week, but South Carolina is scheduled to carry out its first execution ...
'Barbaric, inequitable, unjust': Wisconsin was the first state to abolish the death penalty for all crimes after just one execution
The public reaction to McCaffrey's execution contributed to the success of a movement to end the death penalty in Wisconsin ...
Missouri Supreme Court to consider death row case a day before scheduled execution
Oral arguments were scheduled for Monday morning in the hearing before the state Supreme Court. Williams, 55, is set to die ...
South Carolina death row inmate asks governor for clemency
In South Carolina, the governor has the lone ability to grant clemency and reduce a death sentence to life in prison. However ...