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Rush Limbaugh, the conservative political commentator who redefined American talk radio, died Wednesday at the age of 70. Kathryn Limbaugh announced her husband’s death on his show, which had ...
The Biden administration is using its waning days in office to make a final mark ahead of the incoming Trump White House.. It announced Friday it would forgive another $4.28 billion in student ...
By refusing to seek the death penalty, she denied Laken’s family, friends, and community the full measure of justice they deserve.” US Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-Ga.) also weighed in.
Vermont has abolished the death penalty for all crimes, but has an invalid death penalty statue for treason. [80] When it abolished the death penalty in 2019, New Hampshire explicitly did not commute the death sentence of the sole person remaining on the state's death row, Michael K. Addison. [81] [82]
Florida, 458 U.S. 782 (1982) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for a person who is a minor participant in a felony and does not kill, attempt to kill, or intend to kill. Tison v. Arizona , 481 U.S. 137 (1987) – Death penalty may be imposed on a felony-murder defendant who was a major participant in the underlying felony and exhibits ...
Anti-death penalty groups specifically argue that the death penalty is unfairly applied to African Americans. African Americans have constituted 34.5 percent of those persons executed since the death penalty's reinstatement in 1976 and 41 percent of death row inmates as of April 2018, [ 84 ] despite representing only 13 percent of the general ...
In June 2023, prosecutors announced they intended to seek the death penalty against the onetime Ph.D. student accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students -- Kaylee Goncalves, 21 ...
Kansas is one of 27 states with the death penalty, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The last Kansas execution was carried out in 1965. The last Kansas execution was carried out ...