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OK Rep. McDugle alleges impropriety in Glossip’s clemency denial; AG asks SCOTUS to vacate Glossip’s conviction
July 25, 2023
Oklahoma Rep. Kevin McDugle, leader of the effort to free Richard Glossip, alleged last week that the District Attorney’s Council and Pardon and Parole Board
El Paso man sentenced to 90 consecutive terms for Walmart shooting
July 25, 2023
Patrick Crusius, who pleaded guilty in February to killing 23 people and injuring 22 others at an El Paso Walmart store, was sentenced early this
While we’re on the subject…
July 24, 2023
“If you take away the arguments about cost, deterrence, and closure, what’s left other than a call for vengeance?” the Idaho Statesman asks in an
Alabama resumed executions this month
July 24, 2023
The State of Alabama killed James Barber last Friday, its first execution since Gov. Kay Ivey called for a temporary halt in November after the
OK Attorney General asks SCOTUS to vacate Glossip’s conviction
July 10, 2023
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate Richard Glossip’s 1997 capital murder conviction and return his case to a
Texas high court rejects Rodney Reed petition
July 6, 2023
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Rodney Reed’s petition for a new trial in the murder conviction that sent him to death row 25
In brief: June 2023
June 27, 2023
In Oklahoma, Anthony Sanchez, on death row for 27 years, told CBS News in a telephone interview that he will reject his opportunity for a
Florida kills Duane Owen, its fourth execution in four months
June 27, 2023
Not even pleas from the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops were enough to persuade Gov. Ron DeSantis to commute Duane Owen’s death sentence and spare
Two death row releases: an Arizona man freed after 29 years; Ohio man released after 16 years
June 27, 2023
Two men, Barry Jones in Arizona and Lamont Hunter in Ohio, walked off death row the same day earlier this month, each wrongly convicted of
