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The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday, without explanation, declined to halt the execution of Ernest Lee Johnson, 61, who is scheduled to be put to death on October 5 for a triple killing that occurred during a robbery in 1994. Johnson's lawyers argue that his intellectual disability makes
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Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old University of Iowa student, was stabbed to death on a rural road outside her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa, while out for an evening run on July 18, 2018. Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a 27-year-old former farmhand who came to the U.S. illegally from Mexico as a
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Yankuba Touray, a former minister in Gambia's military junta, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death on July 14, marking a historic moment for the West African country's justice system. The verdict comes after a 26-year wait for justice for the family of Ousman
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Vietnamese police have successfully apprehended Nguyn Kim An, a 26-year-old convict who escaped from Chi Hoa Prison in 2023, after being convicted of murder and robbery. An was awaiting execution for the 2014 murder of his college classmate, Lu Vnh t, and was also infected with COVID-19. The suspect had
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Three federal-death row inmates, Alfred Bourgeois, Cory Johnson, and Dustin Higgs, have been scheduled for execution by Attorney General William P. Barr for their roles in the murders of multiple victims. Bourgeois abused and killed his own daughter, while Johnson murdered seven people in furtherance of his drug-trafficking activities. Higgs
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Kim Kardashian West, a social media influencer, has joined the growing chorus of critics arguing that Brandon Bernard, who was convicted of participating in the 1999 kidnapping and murder of a couple, should be spared from execution. Bernard was convicted of two counts of murder and received a death sentence
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In a remarkable case of perseverance and dedication, Haynes and Boone, LLP Partners Debbie McComas and Stephanie Sivinski, along with Associate Jason Jordan, worked tirelessly to secure a landmark pro bono win for Juan Lizcano, an intellectually disabled man who had been sentenced to death for killing a Dallas police
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A Pennsylvania woman, Shana Decree, and her daughter, Dominique Decree, are expected to spend the rest of their lives in prison after pleading guilty to killing five of their relatives. The women, both of whom were found to be "disoriented" when police arrived at their apartment, had killed
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Saudi Arabia's Riyadh Criminal Court has issued final verdicts in the case of slain Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, after his son announced pardons that spared five of the convicted individuals from execution. The verdicts come as the trial continues to cast a shadow over the international standing
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The Saudi Arabian court's decision to jail eight people for between seven and 20 years for the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has met with mixed reactions from international leaders and human rights groups. While the Khashoggi family has welcomed the verdict as "fair and deterrent,
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In a ruling that came after the deadline passed for prosecutors to pursue the death penalty, an Arizona court has set a $2 million cash-only bond for Mark Gooch, a U.S. Air Force airman charged in the fatal shooting of a school teacher named Sasha Krause. Krause, a 27-year-old
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The United States federal government is set to execute Lezmond Mitchell, a 38-year-old Navajo citizen, on August 26, despite the strong opposition of the Navajo Nation and its president, vice president, and legislative branch. This case is a profound insult to Navajo sovereignty, as the federal government has consistently ignored
