Jury selection underway in Madison County murder trial of Hunter Chenoweth, accused of killing family
Jury selection is underway for the triple murder trial of Hunter Nolan Chenoweth, who is accused of killing three family ...
Yakima Herald-Republic1dOpinion
Commentary: America’s death penalty is dying one generation at a time
The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The ...
Davis Vanguard2d
Death Penalty in 2024: Historic Lows and Rising Concerns
WASHINGTON, DC – The Death Penalty Information Center has reported the use of the death penalty in the United States remained ...
The Marshall Project3d
How the U.S. Turned Away From the Death Penalty and Toward ‘Death by Incarceration’
People convicted of homicides represented about 56% of the population serving life without parole as of 2024, data shows. But ...
Davis Vanguard3d
Study Reports Declining Use of Death Penalty in Texas
Bedard cited the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty’s annual Year in Review, noting that Texas’ death row continued to decrease in size in 2024, reflecting prosecutors’ growing hesitation to ...
OSHA: GE Appliances could have prevented employee's death
GE Appliances has a "troubling history of safety failures" and failed to take steps that could have prevented the July 2024 ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel3d
Social media reacts to costly T.J. Slaton penalty, other Packers miscues in playoff loss to the Eagles
Defensive lineman T.J. Slaton picked up an unnecessary roughness penalty with just more than 5 minutes to go, allowing the Philadelphia Eagles to move the chains and eventually kick a field goal ...
The Texas Tribune5d
Texas legislators seek more protections for death penalty defendants in wake of Trump executive order
Trump’s new directive that aims to increase death sentences clashes with some Texas lawmakers’ efforts to add guardrails to ...
KGOU5d
Oklahoma lawmakers will weigh death penalty moratorium, jail reforms
Oklahoma lawmakers are gearing up to debate a variety of criminal justice bills, including one that would pause the death penalty.
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The Daily Item5dOpinion
America's death penalty is dying one generation at a time
The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The number of new death sentences remained small by historical standards in ...