Opinion
2024 was not a good year for death row inmates seeking mercy
Ironically, as this country gets closer to abolishing death as a punishment, that progress does not bode well for the inmates on death row who will ask to have their lives spared in 2025.
South Carolina death row inmate maintains his innocence and won't ask for clemency
After the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the final appeal of a South Carolina inmate, he decided not to ask the governor for clemency, saying he didn't want to spend the rest of his life in prison for a murder he has always insisted he did not commit.
Oklahoma death row inmate Brenda Andrew may get new trial: What to know about her case
Oklahoma death row inmate Brenda Andrew could get another trial after the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in and said she may not have been treated fairly.
Marion Bowman executed in South Carolina for young woman's 2001 murder: 'I'm innocent'
The state executed Bowman for the 2001 murder of 21-year-old Kandee Martin, a young mother who was killed five days before her son's second birthday.
South Carolina puts inmate Marion Bowman Jr. to death in state’s third execution since September
South Carolina puts inmate Marion Bowman Jr. to death in state’s third execution since September.
South Carolina puts man to death for 2001 murder; it's state third execution since September
South Carolina put a third inmate to death in four months Friday as the state goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find lethal injection drugs. Marion Bowman Jr.
SC death row inmate to die Friday, marking first execution in the US for 2025
Marion Bowman is set to die Friday night by lethal injection in the country’s first execution this year. Bowman decided not to ask Gov. Henry McMaster for clemency, his attorneys said Thursday. After the U.
South Carolina lawyer argues death row inmate 'too heavy' to be executed in desperate last-ditch appeal
Marion Bowman Jr., 44, is scheduled to be executed via lethal injection at 6pm but in their final appeal his lawyers raised concerns that South Carolina's lethal injection protocol doesn't take the de
Eerie death row meal requests - from dirt and one olive to tin of spaghetti
Death Row inmates are given one final request before they die. The Mirror takes a look at the strangest and bizarre prison ...
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She married death row inmate Steven Nelson in December. In 2 weeks, Texas will execute him.
When she began writing letters to a man on Texas’ death row, Noa Dubois had no intention of finding ... and defense ...
French death row inmate Serge Atlaoui repatriated from Indonesia
Arrested in 2005 and sentenced to death in 2007, Atlaoui has long maintained his innocence, claiming he was unaware of ...
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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 ...
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Death row inmate may get retrial due to claim of 'sex-shaming' prosecutors
Oklahoma's only female death row inmate, whose attorneys argue was "sex ... He said Andrew could be resentenced or get an entirely new trial based on the appeals court's findings.
Fewer Texans sentenced to death, executed amid 'evolving standards of decency'
Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...
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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 ...