Death Row

Oklahoma Executes Black Death Row Prisoner Michael Dewayne Smith Amid Capital Punishment Concerns

Smith's execution draws attention to the disproportion of capital punishment among Black people, drug users and those with intellectual disabilities.
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His Lawyers Advised Him To Plead Guilty In Exchange For Nothing. Now He’s Facing Execution.

Brian Dorsey is a “rare case where those of us who sit in judgment of a man convicted of capital murder got it wrong,” according to a former judge who upheld his death sentence.
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Judge Makes Highly Unusual Move In Execution Capital Of The U.S.

Judge Natalia Cornelio found that Jeffery Prevost received ineffective legal assistance at trial.
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Kenneth Smith 'Shook And Writhed' For Minutes During Execution By Nitrogen Gas

The state used 58-year-old Smith as a test subject in the new execution method just over a year after he survived a botched lethal injection execution attempt.
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He Survived A Botched Execution. Now They Plan To Kill Him In An Unprecedented Way.

Kenneth Smith has previously said that he is “terrified” by the prospect of being killed with nitrogen gas.
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Supreme Court Will Hear Oklahoma Death Row Prisoner's Appeal

Richard Glossip, whose case will be heard in the fall, has survived nine execution dates.
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Alabama Wants To Use Untested Method To Kill Inmate Whose Execution Was Already Botched

Execution by nitrogen hypoxia has never been implemented, though Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, originally requested it before his failed lethal injection.
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Missouri Wants To Execute Michael Tisius Tuesday Despite Widespread Pleas To Spare His Life

When Tisius was 19 years old, he killed two jail guards during a botched attempt to free his former cellmate — who now says he "manipulated" Tisius and talked him into the failed escape attempt.
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Missouri Woman Could Be First Openly Transgender Woman To Be Executed In U.S.

Amber McLaughlin, 49, is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003.
By Jim Salter, AP

Scott Peterson's ‘Cushy' Life On Death Row

Ten years after being sentenced to death for the murder of his 8-month pregnant wife, Laci, Scott Peterson is 'comfortably' living on death row on taxpayer money.
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