Tag: Death Penalty

The Delaware Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state's death penalty law is unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Delaware Supreme Court rules state’s death penalty law unconstitutional

Kelly Cohen · August 3, 2016 1:12 pm

Gets a $15 minimum wage and other items in the platform, but loses on some issues too. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Sanders’ influence felt in Dem party platform changes

Al Weaver · June 25, 2016 8:27 pm

November trial for accused S.C. church shooter

Anna Giaritelli · June 7, 2016 9:10 pm

The Justice Department will seek the death penalty against Dylann Roof. (AP Photo)

Justice to seek death penalty against Charleston church shooter

Anna Giaritelli · May 24, 2016 9:19 pm

Vernon Madison is scheduled to be executed for the 1985 murder of Mobile police officer Julius Schulte. (Alabama Department of Corrections, via AP, File)

Appeals court halts execution of Alabama cop killer

Kelly Cohen · May 12, 2016 5:22 pm

Lonnie Franklin Jr., left, appears in Los Angeles Superior Court during closing arguments of his trail. The penalty phase of the trial will begin next Wednesday. Prosecutors are not hesitating to seek Franklin's death. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool)

‘Grim sleeper’ killer may take dirt nap

Jeremy Lott · May 6, 2016 2:11 am

Amid controversies over lethal injection drugs, several states are in the midst of reintroducing the electric chair as a method of state-sanctioned capital punishment. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

The shocking truth about the electric chair

Daniel Allott · March 29, 2016 4:05 am

Utah could become the 20th state to repeal the death penalty. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Another conservative state debates the death penalty

Washington Examiner · March 11, 2016 5:03 am

Alabama, Delaware and Florida are the only states that allow a judge to impose the death penalty after the jury has not unanimously recommended death. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

Alabama judge: State’s death penalty law unconstitutional

Kelly Cohen · March 3, 2016 9:35 pm

The Thursday announcement brought out concern and disagreement among victims' family members. (Grace Beahm/The Post And Courier via AP, Pool, File)

Prosecution wants death penalty for S.C. church shooter

Anna Giaritelli · February 5, 2016 12:34 am

A lethal injection chamber at the State Penitentiary in Lincoln, Neb. (AP Photo/Nate Jenkins)

Why conservatives are abandoning the death penalty

Marc Hyden · January 20, 2016 5:02 am

Thompson was among those outside the United States Supreme Court on Monday to rally during oral arguments in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. (AP photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Supreme Court: Florida death penalty process unconstitutional

Kelly Cohen · January 12, 2016 6:20 pm