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"Lethal Injection, Electric Chair, or Firing Squad? An Inhumane Decision for Death Row Prisoners," by Jessica Washington, The Intercept, April 06, 2025
"Los Angeles County DA ends moratorium on death penalty," by Cameron Kiszla, KTLA, March 25, 2025
"Supreme Court greenlights fourth execution of the week," by Kelsey Reichmann, Courthouse News Service, March 20, 2025
"The Human Cost of Jeff Landry’s Drive to Resume Executions," by Piper French, Bolts, March 20, 2025
"He Was Convicted Based on Allegedly Fabricated Bite Mark Analysis. Louisiana Wants to Execute Him Anyway.," by Richard A. Webster, ProPublica/Verite News, March 11, 2025
"Trump’s death penalty push faces resistance in some red states," by Amanda Hernández, Stateline, March 09, 2025
"South Carolina conducts first US firing squad execution in 15 years: ‘Barbaric’," by Sam Levin, The Guardian, March 07, 2025
"Supreme Court orders new hearing for Richard Glossip’s long-sought-after innocence appeal," by Kelsey Reichmann, Courthouse News Service, February 25, 2025
"Death penalty DNA debacle sparks broader questions over compliance with court orders," by Kelsey Reichmann, Courthouse News Service, February 24, 2025
"South Carolina man to be killed in US’s first firing squad execution in 15 years," by Sam Levin, The Guardian, February 21, 2025
"Alabama puts man to death for a 1991 murder in the nation’s fourth execution using nitrogen gas," by Kim Chandler, Associated Press, February 06, 2025
"Life on South Carolina death row: months of ‘barbaric’ isolation before execution," by Sam Levin, The Guardian, January 28, 2025
"Trump signs death penalty order directing attorney general to help states get lethal injection drugs," by Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press, January 20, 2025
"How a Kentucky death penalty case could have national implications," by Jared Bennett, Louisville Public Media, January 02, 2025
"North Carolina governor commutes 15 death row sentences on last day in office," by Sam Levin, The Guardian, December 31, 2024
