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The Trump administration is spending its final months authorizing executions. Ten federal death row prisoners have been killed so far this year, ending a 17-year federal moratorium on applying the ...
Victims’ families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions shared a range of emotions after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences.
The family of Tennessee death row inmate Gary Wayne Sutton held a press conference asking Gov. Bill Lee to examine the case for a potential pardon.
Berget was not the first person in his family to face the death penalty. In a separate case, Berget's brother, Roger Berget, was charged together with another man for the kidnapping and murder of schoolteacher Rick Patterson in Oklahoma in 1985. [11] [10] Roger and his co-accused Michael Smith were both sentenced to death in 1987. Roger was ...
Terry Strada, national chair of the group 9/11 Families United, said she was shocked by the announcement late Friday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was rejecting a plea deal reached just days ...
On December 23, 2006, a young couple living in a neighbourhood in New Bloomfield, Missouri, were brutally murdered by a relative inside their house. [2] [3]On that day itself, both Sarah and Benjamin Bonnie, aged 25 and 28 respectively, received a call from Sarah's cousin, 34-year-old Brian Joseph Dorsey, who owed money to drug dealers looking for him and he wanted to borrow money from Sarah.
The U.S. Supreme Court reviewed the ruling and on May 2, 2011, the court revoked the decision of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals and reinstated the death penalty in Mitts's case, stating that these instructions made to the jury back in 1994 during Mitts's murder trial were not a breach of his constitutional rights to a fair trial and the U.S ...
Advocates fear Trump will ramp up federal executions upon taking office