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How Florida compares with other states on the death penalty

November 21, 2025November 22, 2025 · Fact Checking

Florida has executed more people in 2025 than in any single year since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The state carried out its 17th execution Nov.…

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Oklahoma death row inmate found unresponsive in cell after being granted clemency on day of execution

November 13, 2025November 13, 2025 · Miami, Florida Local News

An Oklahoma death row inmate was hospitalized Thursday after being found unresponsive in his cell, officials said, just hours after being granted clemency on the same day he…

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Death Row Inmate Says He’s Not Done Living  – Houston Press

October 27, 2025October 27, 2025 · Houston, Texas Local News

For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three decades he’s spent as Inmate No. 00999306 in a small, isolated prison cell.…

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Judge sets Bedford man’s execution date for killings of woman, 8-year-old boy

October 21, 2025October 21, 2025 · Dallas, Texas Local News

Cedric Ricks Provided A man who stabbed his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son to death with kitchen knives in a Bedford apartment in 2013 is to be executed…

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‘This Isn’t Over’: Death Penalty Abolitionists Celebrate Stay in Robert Roberson Execution

‘This Isn’t Over’: Death Penalty Abolitionists Celebrate Stay in Robert Roberson Execution

October 17, 2024October 18, 2024 · Dallas, Texas Local News

Robert Roberson, theTexas death row inmate believed by many to be innocent, did not die as scheduled Thursday night. Despite a handful of challenges from a state that…

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Marcellus Williams’ Death: Political Execution of a Black Man Carried Out by the Supreme Court

Marcellus Williams’ Death: Political Execution of a Black Man Carried Out by the Supreme Court

September 25, 2024September 25, 2024 · Atlanta, Georgia Local News

In a damning display of justice gone wrong, Marcellus Williams, a Missouri death row inmate, was executed, despite overwhelming evidence suggesting his innocence. His death by lethal injection…

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Supreme Court allows execution of Marcellus Williams in Missouri, denying bid for delay

Supreme Court allows execution of Marcellus Williams in Missouri, denying bid for delay

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024 · US News

Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a bid to stop the execution of Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams, who was convicted in the 1998 stabbing…

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Oklahoma city to pay over  million to cleared death row inmate who spent almost half a century in prison

Oklahoma city to pay over $7 million to cleared death row inmate who spent almost half a century in prison

August 15, 2024August 15, 2024 · US News

Edmund, Okla. — An Oklahoma city has agreed to pay more than $7 million to a former death row inmate who was exonerated after nearly 50 years in…

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Newsom leaves the Vatican with pope’s praise for refusing to impose the death penalty

Newsom leaves the Vatican with pope’s praise for refusing to impose the death penalty

May 19, 2024May 19, 2024 · Los Angeles, California Local News

VATICAN CITY —  In an opulent hall in the Apostolic Palace framed in marble and adorned with Renaissance murals, Gov. Gavin Newsom waited in a line of governors, mayors…

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Idaho halts execution by lethal injection after 8 failed attempts to insert IV line

Idaho halts execution by lethal injection after 8 failed attempts to insert IV line

February 28, 2024February 29, 2024 · Orlando, Florida Local News

Idaho halted the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech on Wednesday after medical team members repeatedly failed to find a vein where they could establish an intravenous…

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US Appeals Court Panel Declines To Delay Execution Of One Of The Longest-Serving Death-Row Inmates – KXL

US Appeals Court Panel Declines To Delay Execution Of One Of The Longest-Serving Death-Row Inmates – KXL

February 23, 2024February 24, 2024 · Portland, Oregon Local News

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A U.S. appeals court panel on Friday declined to delay Idaho’s scheduled execution next week of one of the nation’s longest-serving death row inmates.…

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Alabama executes a man with nitrogen gas, the first time the new method has been used

Alabama executes a man with nitrogen gas, the first time the new method has been used

January 25, 2024January 26, 2024 · Chicago, Illinois Local News

Alabama executed a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again put the U.S. at the forefront of the…

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Christina Applegate Gets Standing Ovation at Emmys, Jokes About MS

Christina Applegate Gets Standing Ovation at Emmys, Jokes About MS

January 15, 2024January 15, 2024 · Entertainment

Play video content FOX Christina Applegate got folks out of their seats at the Emmys … and it’s all because of her courage. The “Dead to Me” star,…

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Alabama Wants To Use Untested Method To Kill Inmate Whose Execution Was Already Botched

Alabama Wants To Use Untested Method To Kill Inmate Whose Execution Was Already Botched

August 28, 2023August 28, 2023 · US News

The state of Alabama is seeking to use an untested method to execute a man on death row whose execution was already botched once before. Prosecutors want to…

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