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Georgia set to execute man who killed 2 women in 1994

ATLANTA (AP) — A man who killed his ex-girlfriend and another woman nearly 25 years ago is scheduled to be executed Thursday in Georgia. Scotty Garnell Morrow, 52, was convicted of murder in the shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend Barbara Ann Young and her friend Tonya Woods at Young’s Gainesville home in December 1994. A... Read More

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Scotty Garnell Morrow

April 30, 2019

Death penalty trial set for dad charged with killing 5 kids

LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — A father who police said killed his five young children in their South Carolina home and then drove their bodies around for more than a week is about to stand trial for his life. Jury selection started Monday in Lexington County in the death penalty case of Timothy Jones Jr. Jones... Read More

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Timothy Jones Jr.

April 26, 2019

Death sentence upheld in Pennsylvania troopers’ ambush

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court upheld the death sentence and conviction on Friday of a sniper who killed a state trooper and wounded another in a nighttime ambush outside their barracks in a heavily wooded area. The state Supreme Court’s decision upholds lower court decisions in the case of Eric Frein, who was... Read More

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Eric Frein

April 25, 2019

Texas executes avowed racist in black man’s dragging death

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — An avowed racist who orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history was executed Wednesday in Texas for the dragging death of a black man. John William King, who was white, received a lethal injection for the slaying nearly 21 years ago of James Byrd Jr., who was... Read More

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John William King

April 24, 2019

Convicted ringleader in Texas dragging death to be executed

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A man who orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history was set to be executed Wednesday for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. nearly 21 years ago. John William King, who is white and an avowed racist, was put on death row for chaining Byrd to... Read More

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John William King

April 22, 2019

Texas town reflects on dragging death ahead of execution

JASPER, Texas (AP) — A technology company was almost ready to bring up to 300 new jobs to Jasper, Texas, but in the final stages of recent negotiations, a potential deal-breaker emerged: the community’s history as the place where three white men dragged a black man behind a pickup, killing him. The 1998 death of... Read More

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April 15, 2019

Supreme Court rejects death row appeal over anti-gay juror

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is again rejecting a gay death row inmate’s appeal that claims jurors in South Dakota were biased against him because of his sexual orientation. The justices did not comment on Monday in leaving in place the death sentence for Charles Rhines. Rhines was convicted in the stabbing death of... Read More

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Charles Rhines

April 12, 2019

Alabama inmate who wanted nitrogen spared lethal injection

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate convicted in the 1991 sword-and-dagger slaying of a pastor was spared a lethal injection when his death warrant expired before a divided U.S. Supreme Court voted early Friday to let the execution proceed. A federal judge on Thursday blocked the execution of Christopher Lee Price to weigh his... Read More

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Christopher Lee Price

April 4, 2019

Texas bans clergy from executions after Supreme Court ruling

DALLAS (AP) — Texas prisons will no longer allow clergy in the death chamber after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the scheduled execution of a man who argued his religious freedom would be violated if his Buddhist spiritual adviser couldn’t accompany him. Effective immediately, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice will only permit prison security... Read More

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April 1, 2019

2 death row inmates similar requests, but different results

WASHINGTON (AP) — Death row inmates Patrick Murphy and Domineque Ray each turned to courts recently with a similar plea: Halt my execution if the state won’t let a spiritual adviser of my faith accompany me into the execution chamber. Both cases wound up at the Supreme Court. And while the justices overrode a lower... Read More

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March 28, 2019

Man gets death for teen’s rape, murder, dismemberment

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man who killed and dismembered his girlfriend’s 14-year-old daughter as part of a rape-murder fantasy he shared with the teenager’s mother was sentenced Thursday to death. Jacob Sullivan, 46, had pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and related charges for killing Grace Packer in 2016. After deliberating over parts of three... Read More

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March 28, 2019

Member of ‘Texas 7’ prison-break gang set for execution

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A member of the “Texas 7” gang of escaped prisoners who’s scheduled to be executed Thursday evening should be spared because he didn’t fatally shoot a suburban Dallas police officer during a Christmas Eve robbery more than 18 years ago, according to his attorneys. Patrick Murphy, 57, is slated to receive... Read More

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March 25, 2019

Kansas death penalty case has implications for mentally ill

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The day after Thanksgiving in 2009, James Kahler went to the home of his estranged wife’s grandmother, where he shot the two women, along with his two teenage daughters. No one — not even Kahler’s attorneys — disputes that he killed the four relatives. Instead, his lawyers argue that he was... Read More

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March 13, 2019

California governor places moratorium on executions

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The 737 inmates on California’s largest-in-the-nation death row are getting a reprieve from Gov. Gavin Newsom, who plans to sign an executive order Wednesday placing a moratorium on executions. Newsom also is withdrawing the lethal injection regulations that death penalty opponents already have tied up in courts and shuttering the new... Read More

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Georgia set to execute man who killed 2 women in 1994

Death penalty trial set for dad charged with killing 5 kids

Death sentence upheld in Pennsylvania troopers’ ambush

Texas executes avowed racist in black man’s dragging death

Convicted ringleader in Texas dragging death to be executed

Texas town reflects on dragging death ahead of execution

Supreme Court rejects death row appeal over anti-gay juror

Alabama inmate who wanted nitrogen spared lethal injection

Texas bans clergy from executions after Supreme Court ruling

2 death row inmates similar requests, but different results

Man gets death for teen’s rape, murder, dismemberment

Member of ‘Texas 7’ prison-break gang set for execution

Kansas death penalty case has implications for mentally ill

California governor places moratorium on executions

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