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Alabama lawmakers are preparing to reintroduce a bill that would make the rape or sodomy of a child a capital offense, ...
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After more than three decades, Byron Black, 69, is set to be executed for the Nashville triple murder of Angela Clay and her two daughters.
Channel News Asia reported in mid-2025 that the Chinese government had confirmed the execution of the Chinese celebrity Zhang ...
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall will host a press conference regarding a new bill dealing with the state’s death penalty. Marshall, who will be joined by Rep. Matt Simpson and Sen. April ...
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, has become a less frequently used penalty over the years, but it is still in effect in several states. For the fifth straight year, fewer than ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. ( WBRC) - Two lawmakers in Alabama continue to push for the death penalty in certain sex crimes against children. Senator April Weaver and Representative Matt Simpson say the horrific ...
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall will hold a news conference Thursday morning to discuss legislation aimed at expanding the use of capital punishment.
Andrew James McGann could be eligible for the death penalty if convicted of killing Clinton and Cristen Brink while they were ...
When capital punishment was more common, it was easy to claim that people are executed because they are criminals. But now that fewer criminals receive the death penalty, that's no longer the case ...
Warco claims that Walsh then pressured him into producing a certificate that listed the death as a “homicide, with shaken ...