The 10 latest articles on Death Penalty come from 9 sources, published between Oct 11 and Nov 10. Most come from Yahoo News (2).
People in these stories: Steve Marshall (3), Ivey (3), Kay Ivey (2), Johnson (2)
Organizations: Reuters (2), DOJ (2)
Places: Alabama (5), County (3), US (3), Indiana (2), Avenue (2), U.S. (2)
Lawrence will remain in the Legislature and have his record expunged if he completes a diversion program requiring 300 hours of community service. Alabama State Rep. Kelvin Lawrence State Representative Kelvin Lawrence last week entered into a plea agreement that will…
Image credit Alabama Attorney General’s Office MONTGOMERY– Benjamin Adam Nowell will continue serving life without parole after the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upheld his capital murder conviction. Nowell, 39, of Dothan, received that sentence for the 2022 killing of Brittany Phillips…
Urge Gov. Ivey to grant clemency to those sentenced by judicial override. Governor Ivey has the authority to finish the job. Through clemency, she can commute every death sentence imposed by judicial override to life imprisonment without parole—a penalty…
The Republican governor said she was commuting Toforest Johnson’s death sentence to life in prison without parole. Johnson was convicted of the 1995 murder of Jefferson County Deputy Sheriff William Hardy. Johnson has long maintained he is innocent. “When presented with…
County judge Terry Johnson speaks during the Republican National Hispanic Assembly forum for county judges on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022 at the Bush Convention Center. Former Midland County Judge Terry Johnson has reached a settlement agreement with Midland County regarding the lawsuit…
A state judge this week sentenced 19-year-old Tremaine Poole to 30 years in prison and 10 years on special parole for the 2024 murder of 17-year-old Daily Jackson. State Superior Court Judge Tracy Dayton handed down that sentence on Tuesday following a hearing…
Curtis Flowers, a Black Mississippi man whose six trials for the same four murders exposed racial bias in jury selection, has died at 56. Flowers' case dates back to July 1996, when four people were killed inside Tardy Furniture, where he had…
Alabama AG candidate Katherine Robertson dismisses prison conditions criticism as a federal trial over alleged unconstitutional conditions nears in November. Explore Our Cities & Metro Areas (A-Z) Alabama AG Hopeful Robertson Dismisses Prison Crisis as DOJ Trial Nears Alabama's prisons were…
The State of Alabama on Wednesday filed a motion seeking to dismiss a lawsuit by the Department of Justice that alleges the conditions in Alabama’s prisons for men violate the U.S. Constitution’s protections against cruel and unusual punishment. Alabama argued…
The Indiana Parole Board on Wednesday recommended that Gov. Mike Braun deny clemency to death row inmate Jeffrey Weisheit following competing appeals from the parents of the two children he killed in a 2010 house fire. The unanimous recommendation came just…
Capital punishment and race: Black people on death row, executions, clemency and stays, and racial bias in juries and death sentences.
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