Louisiana death row inmate who is scheduled to die by nitrogen hypoxia challenges the method
A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked ...
Death row inmate killed by three-man firing squad after requesting the rare execution method not used for 15 years
Double murderer Brad Sigmon was put to death in South Carolina on Friday by a three-man firing squad for killing William and ...
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The story of a death row inmate, his legal case, and an Oscar nomination
Former Texas death row inmate John Henry Ramirez's story is told in the documentary short, "I Am Ready, Warden," which is up for an Academy Award this Sunday. The Houston attorney who won his case ...
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Keri Blakinger ’14 Receives Oscar Nomination for Death Row Inmate Documentary
Keri Blakinger’s ’14 work documenting the lives of death row inmates earned her the title ... that would transform the entire focus of the documentary. “[Watching him] in the moments after ...
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The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
Federal Appeals Court Reverses Texas Death Row Inmate’s Conviction
A federal appeals court has tossed a Texas woman’s death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant ...