Civil society experts’ abolitionist view on the death penalty is at odds with the public’s anger and want for retributive ...

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Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...

Frazier was convicted of capital murder for breaking into a Birmingham woman's apartment, stealing cash, raping her at ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital punishment in 1965.