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Texas’ largest county remains the state’s deadliest when it comes to capital murder convictions, a new report says.
Winner of the Frieze L.A. art fair’s Impact Prize uses quilting to reveal the reality of life in prison: "If my artwork is able to give people an understanding of what an individual goes through while in prison -- it definitely means a lot."
“This was the fifth execution that I’ve witnessed in Alabama, and I have never seen such a violent reaction to an execution,” said journalist Lee Hedgepeth. Ultimately, the execution lasted about 22 minutes.
Timothy James Young was convicted of murder in Tulare on the word of a police informant. But there are mountains of evidence demonstrating his innocence.
Alabama authorized nitrogen hypoxia in 2018 amid a shortage of lethal injection drugs, but the state has not attempted to use it until now to carry out a death sentence.
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‘It’s about vengeance and some of our ugliest societal impulses and urges’ The roots of the death penalty and how it’s been allowed to continue.
Death by incarceration is the most prevalent and most overlooked form of state sponsored execution. They call it a life sentence, but that is a misnomer. Any prison sentence that a person cannot outlive is a sentence to death.
"Justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people," said Gov. Kate Brown.
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