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Gulf war Army vet Jeffrey Hutchinson to be executed for murder of girlfriend, 3 children
A man who was sentenced to death for the murders of his girlfriend and three young children in 1998 is set to be executed in Florida May 1.
Los Angeles Times6d
Life after California’s death row: What happens when condemned inmates get a second chance
SAN FRANCISCO — By age 46, Bob Williams had spent more than half his life in isolation, waiting to die on San Quentin’s death row. Williams was 18 when he raped and murdered 40-year-old Mary ...
The Clarion-Ledger6d
Execution date set for man on Mississippi death row for nearly 50 years
Richard Jordan, Mississippi's oldest death row inmate, has been given a June 25 execution date. Jordan was sentenced to death for the 1976 kidnapping and murder of Edwina Marter. His attorneys are ...
AOL6d
Life after California's death row: What happens when condemned inmates get a second chance
On death row, he built a life amid the dank cells of concrete and iron stacked five stories high. He soaked up books on philosophy and spirituality, finding solace in the poem "Invictus." ...
ABC News6d
Execution date set for man who's been on death row since 1976
The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25 JACKSON, Miss. -- Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be ...
The Daytona Beach News-Journal6d
Defense witnesses say Deltona man convicted of Xbox murders wrote poems, was 'very quiet'
(This story has been updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy. Jerone Hunter and Troy Victorino are not on death row. They are currently being resentenced and both could be ...
The New York Times5d
George Ryan, Illinois Governor Who Halted Prison Executions, Dies at 91
A Republican, he imposed a moratorium on capital punishment, saying he could not support a death-row system “so fraught with error” that it might end an innocent life. By Robert D. McFadden ...
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La. Supreme Court grants Caddo death row inmate more time to file for post-conviction relief
SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - On April 30, the Louisiana Supreme Court said, in a new opinion, that four weeks wouldn’t be enough time for a local death row inmate to file for post-conviction relief.
Daily Journal5d
Mississippi sets an execution date for a man who's been on death row since 1976
JACKSON — Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate is set to be executed on June 25, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Richard Gerald Jordan, 78, who was sentenced to death in 1976 ...
WAPT5d
Mississippi sets June execution date for state's longest-serving death row inmate
The Mississippi Supreme Court has set an execution date for the state’s longest-serving death row inmate.Richard Gerald Jordan, 78, was convicted in the 1976 kidnapping and killing of Edwina Marter in ...
The Gazette3d
Colorado's chief justice opens up about 13-year friendship with death row inmate
Chief Justice Monica M. Márquez spoke publicly on Sunday about her longtime friendship with an Alabama man formerly on death row, which began during her time as a law school intern and ended ...