With 3 death sentences in 2024, Tarrant County ranks 2nd in Texas for death row inmates
Jason Alan Thornburg showed no emotion as the judge read his death sentence aloud. A few jurors, who had decided the murderous former street preacher’s fate moments ago, brushed away tears. Relatives and friends of the victims let out sighs of relief.
Outgoing governor takes 15 off North Carolina’s death row
(The Center Square) – In his final day in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday changed the justice resolved through legal prosecutions by taking 15 people off death row. A release says “thorough review of detailed petitions for clemency ...
North Carolina Gov. Cooper commutes sentences of 15 death row inmates
One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009, a judge had yet to issue a decision in that case.
Outgoing North Carolina governor commutes 15 death row sentences
In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of first-degree murder to life in prison without parole.
Biden commutes sentences of 37 federal death row inmates in final month of presidency
President Biden is commuting the sentences for 37 of the 40 convicted murderers on federal death row, reclassifying them to life in prison without parole.
These 3 inmates are still on federal death row after Biden commuted 37 of 40 death sentences
President Biden left in place the capital punishment sentences of just three federal inmates: Robert Bowers, Dzhokar Tsarnaev and Dylann Roof.
The Three Death Row Sentences Joe Biden Did Not Commute
Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction and the killing of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Officer Sean Collier during the getaway attempt. Prosecutors said the brothers carried out the attack to punish the U.S. for wars in Muslim countries.
North Carolina Gov Cooper commutes sentences of 15 death row inmates on final day in office
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison without the possibility of parole, coinciding with New Year’s Eve and his final day in
N.C. governor commutes 15 death penalty sentences before leaving office
Outgoing North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on Tuesday announced 15 commutations of the death penalty to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Governor Commutes Sentence of Man Who Raped, Killed Elderly Woman
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper commuted death row inmate Christopher Roseboro's sentence to life without the possibility of parole.
On his final day in office, NC Gov. Roy Cooper commuted 15 death sentences; who are they?
As one of his last acts in office, Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 people on North Carolina's death row to life without parole.
The Three Death Row Prisoners Biden Chose Not to Spare
President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row but declined to save the lives of three men convicted ...
Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates before Trump can resume executions
The move spares the lives of people convicted in killings, including the slayings of police and military officers, people on ...
For Nimisha Priya, Indian nurse on death row for murder in Yemen, hope hangs by a thread — a pardon from victim’s family
Nimisha Priya is accused of murdering Yemeni citizen Talal by allegedly “injecting him with sedatives’’. Since April, her ...
On final day in office, Gov. Roy Cooper grants clemency to 15 on NC’s death row
Gov. Roy Cooper announced he would change the death sentences of 15 people to life in prison without parole as one of his ...
‘Shocked’: Leaders, family react to President Biden removing S.C. bank murderer from death row
Leaders and family members reacted to President Biden removing a death row inmate sentenced in the murders of two S.C. bank ...
Heinous double-murderer spared death sentence by Biden now wants to be freed, arguing ‘compassionate release’
Brandon Council was sentenced to death for the 2017 murders of two South Carolina bank employees and mothers during a bloody robbery.
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Utah Supreme Court signals interest in death penalty challenge
The Utah Supreme Court has signaled interest in a legal challenge filed by a group of death row inmates against the state's ...
Japan's "Black Widow" death row inmate, Chisako Kakehi, dies at 78
Japanese death-row inmate Chisako Kakehi, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers​, has ...