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Federal Appeals Court Issues Temporary Stay of TX Death Row Prisoner’s Execution

The ruling cited concerns over Edward Busby’s eligibility for capital punishment because of intellectual disability.

Former Oklahoma death row prisoner freed from jail as he awaits retrial in 1997 killing

An Oklahoma man who has narrowly avoided execution three separate times could walk free from a county jail after a judge ...

ACLU ramps up effort to have Memphis man removed from death row as execution nears

Tony Carruthers is scheduled to be executed on May 21. In the weeks leading to the date, his attorneys want him pulled from ...
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Their dads were on Missouri's death row. They faced goodbyes, executions and 'living in grief'

Summer Shockley with her father, Lance Shockley during a visit at Potosi Correctional Center, in 2024. Lance Shockley executed on Oct. 14, 2025, for the 2005 murder of a Missouri highway patrolman. Of ...
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Richard Glossip released from prison on bond ahead of retrial in murder case

Former death row inmate Richard Glossip was released from prison on bond while awaiting a retrial in a 1997 murder case after ...

Texas executes 600th person since 1982

A man who experts for both prosecutors and defense attorneys had said was intellectually disabled became the 600th person executed in Texas since 1982, put to death Thursday evening for the killing of ...