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Since 1978, when capital punishment was approved by the state Legislature after having been dormant since a state Supreme ...

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FROM A JUDGE ON WHETHER THE USE OF GAS TO EXECUTE A DEATH ROW INMATE IS CONSTITUTIONAL. JESSE HOFFMAN IS ACCUSED OF RAPING AND KILLING A WOMAN NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO IN SAINT TAMMANY. AND THE CASE ...

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For nearly four decades, David Leonard Wood has languished on Texas Death Row, convicted of the brutal ... In 1990, George Hall, a prisoner serving a 45-year sentence hundreds of miles away ...