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JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WTAJ) — The Cambria County District Attorney Greg Neugebauer has announced that Pennsylvania will not be seeking the death penalty for convicted murderer Brian Giles. In June ...
A suburban Philadelphia woman charged with fatally shooting her parents and carving up their bodies with a chainsaw will not face the death penalty, prosecutors said Thursday. Verity Beck, 44 ...
(WHTM) — President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of 37 people on federal death row, giving them a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Among those 37 men is Philadelphia ...
A Provisional Irish Republican Army member was sentenced to death for murder before abolition was extended across the UK. European Union human-rights protocols signed in 1999 abolished the death penalty in EU nations, but the UK is no longer an EU member. [18] 1998 Mahmood Hussein Mattan, convicted and hanged 1952, conviction quashed 1998. [19]
Walter Ogrod is an American man who was convicted and sentenced to death for the July 12, 1988, sexual assault and murder of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to police, Ogrod confessed to Horn's murder four years after it occurred, but in 2020 the "confession" was recognized to be false.
As of August 2024, 96 people were on Pennsylvania's death row, all of whom are male. [16] 74% of inmates in Pennsylvania who are on death row have been on it for more than 10 years. [17] Some inmates who were facing death row have received re-trials or different sentencing strategies due to the 2015 moratorium. [18]
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) announced on Thursday that he will not sign any execution warrants as governor and called for the state legislature to abolish the death penalty. “When an ...
Luigi Nicholas Mangione (/ l u ˈ iː dʒ i ˌ m æ n dʒ i ˈ oʊ n i / ⓘ loo-EE-jee MAN-jee-OH-nee; [1] [2] born May 6, 1998) is an American man who was identified as the suspect in the killing of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, which occurred on December 4, 2024.