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Did faulty drug tests taint parole hearings? California is reviewing hundreds of denials
Thousands of California prisoners falsely tested positive for opioids last year because of a laboratory mistake. Now hundreds ...
South Carolina death row inmate chooses lethal injection after firing squad controversy
Stephen Stanko, a South Carolina death row inmate, chose lethal injection after a firing squad execution was criticized as ...
Judge Declines to Block Transfer of Death Row Inmates Granted Clemency by Biden to ‘Supermax’ Facility
President Joseph R. Biden Jr. commuted dozens of men’s sentences to life without parole, but the Trump administration has ...
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VIEW FROM THE HAWKES NEST: Mike the Cat, legend of Missouri State Penitentiary
About the same time William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett were defending the Alamo in San Antonio in 1836, a prison ...
Death row inmate’s appeal in limbo for 4 years as McLennan County trial court hearing was never held
Kelly, who took office in January 2021, and McLennan County District Attorney Josh Tetens, who took office in January 2023, ...
South Carolina inmate chooses to die by lethal injection amid concerns about firing squad
South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko has chosen to die by lethal injection after his lawyers say he is troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of the last person in the state who w ...
SC Supreme Court rejects death row inmate's firing squad info request
Stephen Stanko asked for more information about the execution method. He's set to die on June 13.
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Arizona death row inmate commits suicide
FLORENCE, Ariz. — An Arizona death row inmate who murdered his wife and young daughter has died in what the Department of Corrections is calling an apparent suicide. The department says the ...
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THE TUCKER EXECUTION: Tucker one of 13 Death Row inmates from T&D region; Other killers await appeals on their death sentences
Of the 69 inmates currently on South Carolina's Death Row, 12 inmates (excluding Tucker) await their fate for crimes committed in The T&D Region in the past 12 years. Most are awaiting a hearing ...