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After nearly two years in the dark, court files regardin Dallas Barrett’s death at Whiskey Row in 2021 have been made public.
The lawyers of a death row inmate set to die by gruelling execution method have objected due to a dementia diagnosis.
Ralph Menzies, a death row inmate who was convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Maurine Hunsaker in 1986, is set to ...
Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has at times spared prisoners with dementia from execution, including an Alabama man in 2019 who had ...
Lawyers of a death row inmate are trying to delay his execution after he committed a heinous crime in 1988. Byron Black, 68, ...
Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...
California currently has 574 individuals on death row, the most in the nation, while being the most populous U.S. state.
Call grows for Gov. Gavin Newsom to end death penalty in California, reducing sentences to life without parole and addressing systemic discrimination.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas death row inmate can challenge the constitutionality of the state’s DNA testing law in his bid to have DNA evidence from his case tested. In a 6 ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for execution. The 6-3 decision in favor of Ruben ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for execution. The 6-3 decision in favor of Ruben ...