*Earlier today, I released all of my writings on the April 4, 2024 execution of my friend Michael Smith in Oklahoma. Below is the chapter that...
After state officials announced last week that Indiana will resume executions for the first time in over a decade, secrecy largely shrouds the new drug, pentobarbital,...
The state of Indiana hasn’t put someone to death in 15 years, but that streak is soon about to be broken. GOP Gov. Eric Holcomb announced...
Connecticut abolished capital punishment in April 2012. That made Connecticut the 17th state in this country to do so and the fifth state to end the...
BLAIR, Neb. (WOWT) – The man suspected in the stabbing death of a Catholic priest in a Fort Calhoun church rectory submitted a plea of “not...
Topline Alabama executed a death row inmate using nitrogen gas Thursday, marking the first time a convict was put to death in the U.S. using a...
I regularly skim the rulings issued by the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Most of the time, I don’t find anything that rises to the level...
The North Carolina Supreme Court published a ruling Friday that a Black man on death row should not be given a new trial despite that he’d...
Anti-death penalty advocates in Louisiana are calling on Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards to act within the next two weeks to commute the sentences of the...
“Mr. Johnson has indeed forfeited his liberty by his criminal conduct, but he has not forfeited his humanity. I prayerfully ask you to consider that now...
