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LINCOLN — Nebraska death penalty supporters got a sign from Arkansas on Monday that a proposed lethal-injection protocol might withstand a court challenge if OK’d, as expected, by the governor.
JUNEAU, Alaska - House Speaker Mike Chenault has introduced a death penalty bill in the Alaska Legislature. It would allow the attorney general to seek capital punishment in certain cases. The R...
Houston hair care businessman Farouk Shami says he'd support a moratorium on the death penalty if elected governor. In a televised debate Monday evening with Democratic challenger Bill White, Shami says "a lot of innocent people" have been killed. Texas leads the nation in carrying out capital punishment, and Shami says he wouldn't support executions unless he was "110 percent sure" of the guilt ...
Nebraska death-penalty supporters got a sign from Arkansas that a proposed, lethal-injection protocol might withstand a court challenge.
Nebraska death-penalty supporters got a sign from Arkansas that a proposed, lethal-injection protocol might withstand a court challenge. On Monday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals _ which also covers Nebraska _ upheld Arkansas' lethal injection protocol.
Considering the lengthy appeals process, why does Kansas bother having a death penalty? Wouldn’t sentencing the worst killers to life without chance of parole be a whole lot cheaper, simpler and — given the cold-blooded nature of state executions — more morally acceptable?
China's highest court has issued new guidelines on the death penalty that instruct lower courts to limit its use to a small number of "extremely serious" cases.
FORT WORTH -- Democratic hair care businessman Farouk Shami guaranteed Monday that he would create 100,000 jobs available to everyone, offer free electricity and an enact a moratorium on the death penalty if elected governor of Texas.In the first and ...
House Speaker Mike Chenault has introduced a death penalty bill in the Alaska Legislature.
TOPEKA (AP) -- Sixteen years ago, Gov. Joan Finney allowed a death penalty bill to become law without her signature. The feisty Democrat said she was doing so because it was the will of Kansas' people.
Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- China’s Supreme People’s Court issued guidelines stressing that the use of the death penalty should be limited, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
FORT WORTH - The two main Democratic candidates for governor clashed on the death penalty, increasing the gasoline tax and halting Barnett Shale energy production Monday night in their only statewide televised debate.
LITTLE ROCK — The 8th U.S. Court of Appeals at St. Louis has upheld the state's lethal injection procedures.
LITTLE ROCK—A federal appeals court upheld Arkansas’ lethal injection protocol Monday, rejecting condemned inmates’ claims that the three-drug cocktail puts them at risk of excruciating pain before dying.
House Speaker Mike Chenault says he would like to see his death penalty bill pass the legislature, but doubts that it has enough support.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against a man charged with five counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of his estranged wife, three members of her family and a family friend in southern Tennessee.
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