With another execution set, Brevard’s death row is nearly empty as Florida carries out a record number of executions.
Soon after he took office in 2019, Gov. Mike DeWine imposed a kind of informal moratorium on executions in the Buckeye State.
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Gov. Kay Ivey halted a scheduled Alabama execution by commuting Charles “Sonny” Burton’s sentence to life in prison without parole. Burton was convicted in a 1991 Talladega robbery, though court ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is criticizing Gov. Kay Ivey’s decision to commute the death sentence of Charles “Sonny” Burton, a death row inmate who was days away ...
After a 16 year pause on death row executions, Kentucky lawmakers passed a bill that would let them resume in the commonwealth.
The death penalty is reserved for the most serious murder cases in Oklahoma, but prosecutors say the decision to pursue it involves a detailed legal and internal review process. Erik Grayless, a ...
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman praised the General Assembly for overriding the Governor’s veto of Senate Bill 251, ...
Attorney General Russell Coleman praised the General Assembly for overriding Governor Beshear’s veto of a piece of ...