The US federal government has executed prisoner Brandon Bernard, who was found guilty for his role in a 1999 double homicide in Texas, making him the ninth inmate to receive the federal death penalty this year. Bernard, who was just 18 when he took part in the carjacking and murder of Tod...
The Biden Justice Department has withdrawn permission to seek the death penalty in more than two dozen cases. However, in most other cases, defendants either hadn’t gone to trial or hadn’t been sentenced yet. Forty-four inmates are on federal death row, and Justice Department lawyers...
Federal death row Expand The Irish Times - Letters to the Editor. Mon Oct 07 2024 - 00:06 Sir,– Despite concerns that his conviction was unsafe, the governor of Missouri allowed the execution of Marcellus Williams to proceed (“The Irish Times view on the continued use of the death pen...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal prisoner scheduled to be executed just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office has tested positive for coronavirus, his lawyer said Thursday.
As the only woman on federal death row, Montgomery had been held in a prison in Texas and was brought to Terre Haute on Monday night. Montgomery’s legal team says she suffered "sexual torture" for years, including gang rapes, as a child, permanently scarring her emotionally and exacerbatin...
If he had only his own tale to tell, the story of David Paul Hammer - career criminal, scourge of the US prison system and, now, the next federal prisoner ... A Gumbel 被引量: 0发表: 0年 US Turns against Death Penalty as 1,000th Prisoner Is Executed With the final words 'God ...
stay of execution Tuesday, shortly after another appeals court lifted an Indiana judge's ruling that found she was likely mentally ill and couldn't comprehend she would be put to death. But both appeals were lifted, allowing the execution of the only female on federal death row to go ...
Death row convicts can't rely on an eleventh-hour appeal, although some like Richard Glossip secured a fourth stay of execution in 2015 when ...
Oklahoma Wants Federal Inmate Transferred So He Can Be Put to Death Oklahoma’s top prosecutor is asking the federal Bureau of Prisons to transfer an inmate to state custody so that he can be executed for killing a 77-year-old woman in 1999 Associated PressJan. 24, 2025 Schools in New Me...
Others are advocating for Mr Biden to commute the sentences of federal death row prisoners. The second largest single-day act of clemency was by former president Barack Obama, with 330, shortly before leaving office in 2017.