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Josh Shapiro speaks at his swearing in as Governor of Pennsylvania

reprieve

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro calls to abolish the death penalty

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'year of the botched execution'

Death penalty: 1 in 3 U.S. executions 'botched' in 2022

View of the execution chamber at Huntsville Correctional Center in Texas.

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SCOTUS Says No

Supreme Court declines death row inmate's appeal over prejudiced jurors

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Poison Picked and Rejected

Alabama delays execution after 5-4 Supreme Court rules it can continue

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Brigid Kennedy

What's next for Melissa Lucio's death penalty case?

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Life

Texas prosecutor, facing widespread pressure, may pause Melissa Lucio execution

Riyadh's "Chop Chop Square," where public executions are carried out

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so much death

Saudi Arabia conducts mass execution of 81 people

The gurney used for lethal injections in Oklahoma.

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Oklahoma resumes executions after 6 years

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Joel Mathis

Why Biden's team is pushing for a death penalty he won't execute

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Silent but potentially deadly

Biden's silence on capital punishment tests fellow opponents

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Dark Ages

South Carolina court halts executions until firing squad is ready

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U.S. executes 8th inmate this year, after Justice Barrett, other Supreme Court conservatives lift stay

Anti-capital punishment protesters in Terre Haute, Indiana

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Divided 5-4 Supreme Court clears way for 2nd federal execution his week

Federal Correct Complex in Terre Haut, Indiana.

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Daniel Lewis Lee was 'strapped to a gurney' for 4 hours as he awaited Supreme Court's execution ruling, lawyer says

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Judge blocks 1st federal execution in 17 years, in latest legal challenge to restarting death penalty

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Supreme Court clears way for 1st federal execution since 2003 in 5-4 decision

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Texas executes Larry Swearingen despite contested forensic evidence

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Tennessee carries out first execution since 2009, using 'torturous' drug cocktail

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Florida inmate executed with experimental injection

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Amid new DNA evidence, Missouri governor stays execution of death row inmate

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Judge lifts court order blocking 2nd Arkansas execution Monday night

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Alabama Senate votes to use nitrogen gas in executions

Death chamber in Lucasville, Ohio, circa 2001

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U.S. Supreme Court blocks first of 8 planned Arkansas executions in 11 days

Ronald Bert Smith was executed by Alabama

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Alabama executes inmate Ronald Smith Jr. after split Supreme Court refuses stay

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Delaware's top court effectively strikes down the death penalty

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Oklahoma state records show wrong drug was used in January execution

Virginia executed Alfredo Prieto, its first lethal injection in 3 years

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Virginia executes convicted murderer who claimed to be mentally impaired

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This haunting website tracks all the Americans set to be executed

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Execution dates set for Oklahoma inmates involved in Supreme Court case

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Justice Sotomayor compares the death penalty drug to 'being burned at the stake'

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Justice Breyer: The death penalty is 'likely unconstitutional'

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Supreme Court allows lethal injection drug used in botched executions

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Nebraska governor vetoes bipartisan death penalty repeal bill

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With lethal injections on hold, Oklahoma is considering gassing death-row inmates

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Ohio postpones six executions to prepare new lethal-injection drugs