WASHINGTON – The Trump administration announced plans Thursday to resume executing federal prisoners awaiting the death penalty – ending a 16-year moratorium on the practice and setting the stage for fresh legal challenges. Attorney General William Barr ordered the Bureau ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — A judge refused Thursday to stop a death penalty prosecution against a man in a New York City bike path attack that killed eight people, saying there’s no proof President Donald Trump’s words affected the Justice ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Before a suspect was even publicly named, President Donald Trump declared that whoever gunned down 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue should “suffer the ultimate price” and that the death penalty should be brought back “into ...

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The Washington state Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously struck down the death penalty there as unconstitutional and “racially biased,” a ruling that makes it the latest in a string of states to abandon capital punishment in recent years. Washington state ...

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ross Geiger had doubts about recommending a death sentence 20 years ago for a convicted Ohio killer, concerned about the impact of the offender’s tough childhood on his behavior. But ultimately, Geiger voted in favor of death ...

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LINCOLN, Neb. — The 11 men on Nebraska’s death row can’t be executed because their death sentences were converted to life in prison when the state’s death penalty was repealed in 2015, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. The American ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously reversed a lower court that had found an Alabama death row inmate ineligible for execution because his declining health had left him unable to remember the murder he had committed. The justices ...

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HOUSTON — A black Texas prison inmate who earlier this year won a U.S. Supreme Court order for a new punishment hearing because his death sentence may have been tainted by references to race has accepted a life prison term ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court late Tuesday stayed the execution of a Georgia inmate who has been on death row for a quarter-century, halting the lethal injection after his attorneys raised questions of racial bias in the case. Keith Leroy Tharpe ...

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — A condemned killer of two people scheduled to die in less than a month is challenging Ohio’s lethal injection method as well as the constitutionality of the state’s death penalty law. Death row inmate Gary Otte is ...

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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — In a heinous case on the Navajo Nation, an 11-year-old girl was lured into a van, sexually assaulted and killed. The tribe did not seek to have the man who recently admitted to killing her put to ...

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SANTA ANA, Calif. — A California judge ruled Friday that a convicted mass killer will be spared the death penalty amid a long-running scandal over authorities’ use of jailhouse informants. Judge Thomas M. Goethals said 47-year-old Scott Dekraai would not ...

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