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Life after California's death row: What happens when condemned inmates get a second chance

Then-new Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a moratorium on executions and ordered death row dismantled. Years later, inmates say they got a bittersweet new lease on life.

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Mississippi sets June execution date for state's longest-serving death row inmate

In a ruling Thursday, the state’s high court said Jordan had exhausted all state and federal appeals and set the execution for June 25. Jordan will turn 79 on May 25.

U.S. News & World Report · 1d

Mississippi Sets an Execution Date for a Man Who's Been on Death Row Since 1976

The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25

Remembered for corruption conviction, halting death penalty

Chicago Sun-Times · 8h

From hero of the anti-death penalty movement to felon, former Illinois Gov. George Ryan dead at 91

George Ryan, who served as Illinois secretary of state, Illinoia House speaker, lieutenant governor and ultimately governor, is best known for declaring a state moratorium on the death penalty in 2000 that led to its abolition.

WGLT · 6h

Former Gov. George Ryan dead at 91; remembered for corruption conviction, halting death penalty

Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan died Friday morning at 91, more than two decades after leaving office for the last time and 12 years after his release from federal prison. He died just one day after being put into hospice care in his native Kankakee.

The Washington Post on MSN · 7h

George Ryan, Illinois governor who halted executions, dies at 91

A Republican and former pharmacist, he cleared the state’s death row and imposed a moratorium on capital punishment. He was later imprisoned for corruption.

After Biden commuted federal death row sentences, DAs are weighing state charges

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

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Execution date set for man on Mississippi death row for nearly 50 years

Richard Gerald Jordan has been on Mississippi's death row since 1977. The state has set an execution date of June 25, saying ...

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Idaho judge slams Bryan Kohberger's 'hollow' attempt to dodge death penalty in latest blow to defense

Judge Steven Hippler denied a motion on Tuesday from Bryan Kohberger's defense team that asked to remove the death penalty as ...

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History of the Death Penalty

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

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Louisiana death row conviction overturned as man’s lawyers cite faulty forensic analysis

A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge.

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Judge rules death penalty will remain as possible punishment despite Bryan Kohberger's autism diagnosis

A judge ruled Bryan Kohberger, who is autistic, according to his lawyers, could still be put to death if he is convicted of ...

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Death penalty on the table for Arkansas man accused of severely beating 2-year-old who later died

20-year-old Wesley Davis was arrested after a child was found unresponsive on March 1 and died days later. SEVIER COUNTY, ...

Defenders of Brittany Holberg must respond to court on reopening of case

The defenders of death row inmate Brittany Holberg have until May 12 to respond to a federal appeals court considering ...

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