Roy Cooper’s commutations should signal the death penalty’s end in North Carolina | Opinion
Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...
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 ...
Families who lost loved ones to violence find relief, doubt in California’s death penalty
Wife of murder victim Jon Johnson, Karen Johnson, hugs jury member Fred Young on May 12, 2010, outside the Sacramento ...
Two death row inmates reject Biden’s clemency, taking gamble on appeals
Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis argued that President Joe Biden’s commutations hinder their chance of appeal as they seek to ...
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The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the state-enacted execution of a person as punishment for a capital crime.
Death penalty still possibility for Bloomfield double homicide suspect
The man accused of the shooting deaths of two people in Bloomfield, Neb. in early 2024 could still face the death penalty ...
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Zimbabwe abolishes the death penalty
Zimbabwe officially abolished the death penalty Tuesday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law an act that will ...
Two death row inmates reject Biden’s clemency
Two death row inmates have rejected the clemency granted to them by Joe Biden, opting to take their chance in the courts.
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Judge in Bloomfield homicide case rejects argument that death penalty is unconstitutional
The death penalty remains on the table for the man accused of fatally shooting two men at a Bloomfield bowling alley last ...
Two death row inmates reject Biden's commutation of their sentences
Shannon Wayne Agofsky and Len Davis both filed emergency petitions prevent their death sentences from being commuted to life in prison without parole.
Two death row inmates reject Biden's commutation of their life sentences
Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden have ...
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Zimbabwe abolishes death penalty
Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty after President Emmerson Mnangagwa approved a law that will end capital ...