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On August 5, 1974, several of President Richard Nixon's recorded-on-audiotape Oval Office conversations were released. One of them, which was described as the "smoking gun" tape, was recorded soon after the Watergate break-in, and demonstrated that Richard Nixon had been told of the White House connection to the Watergate burglaries soon after they took place, and approved a plan to thwart the ...
Gaetz resigned from the lame-duck 118th Congress immediately after Trump announced his choice of the lawmaker as AG Nov. 13. In his resignation letter, Gaetz told House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La ...
Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2003 H.R. 2574: June 24, 2003 Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) 46 Died in Committee. Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2003 S. 402: February 13, 2003 Russell Feingold (D-WI) 0 Died in Committee. 109th Congress: Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act H.R. 4923: March 9, 2006 Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) 45 Died in Committee.
Capital punishment for offenses is allowed by law in some countries. Such offenses include adultery, apostasy, blasphemy, corruption, drug trafficking, espionage, fraud, homosexuality and sodomy not involving force, perjury causing execution of an innocent person (which, however, may well be considered and even prosecutable as murder), prostitution, sorcery and witchcraft, theft, treason and ...
Two of the 37 people on federal death row whose sentences were commuted last month are trying to block President Joe Biden's clemency action.. Shannon Wayne Agofsky, who was sentenced to death in ...
Agofsky, 53, claims he is innocent in the 1989 bank president murder case and disputes how he was charged in the stomping death case. Shannon Agofsky was convicted of two separate murders in 1989 ...
Many inmates experience a "death row phenomemon" as a response of a capital punishment sentence, in which traumatic effects are experienced from being placed in death row custody due to the conditions or the impending death sentence. A consequence of the syndrome is that inmates’ changes in health and behavior turn in the direction of ...
President-elect Donald Trump refused to wish federal death-row inmates granted clemency by President Biden a merry Christmas on Wednesday – telling them to “go to Hell.” “[T]o the 37 most ...