The use of capital punishment has steadily declined in the United States since its peak in 1996, when 315 death sentences ...
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Alabama legislator files bills targeting the death penalty
One proposal would allow those sentenced to death before a 2017 law change to be resentenced. The other would put capital ...
Florida accounted for 19 of the executions in 2025. Alabama, Texas and South Carolina each had five. This year, Alabama continued its use of nitrogen executions and another state — Louisiana — ...
The justices wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new ...
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Supreme Court hears rare death penalty case
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Alabama’s appeal to reinstate the death sentence for Joseph Clifton Smith. A lower ...
The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests.
Fewer Americans support capital punishment. Fewer courts are handing out death sentences. And we’ve got way more executions ...
The U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing Alabama's attempt to execute Joseph Clifton Smith, convicted for a 1997 murder. Lower ...
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Court appears divided on whether lower courts properly found death row inmate to be intellectually disabled
The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with the case of an Alabama man who has been on that state’s death row for more than two decades. The question before the […] ...
A DeKalb County judge will take up several issues in a January hearing regarding how the trial will be conducted for a woman accused of kidnapping and forcing a ...
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