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The year 2024 was also a year of deliberations and decisions – with the most high-profile cases occurring in U.S. District Judge Lawrence Vilardo’s eighth-floor courtroom in t ...

David Ware, for the slaying of a Tulsa police officer. A handful of death-penalty cases are pending, including in ...

President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 individuals on federal death row, exempting those convicted of terrorism and ...

Jason Villalba praises Jeff Leach for putting principle over politics in both the Paxton impeachment hearings and the Robert ...

The nearly 1,000-day stretch without a new death sentence is Oklahoma’s longest since at least 1974, according to data ...

In a deeply controversial decision, outgoing President Joe Biden commuted the death sentence of Marvin Gabrion, a man ...

Oklahoma’s death row is dwindling with each execution. No state court has imposed a death sentence since May 13, 2022, when a ...

Alabama conducted more executions in 2024 than any other U.S. state, a fact Attorney General Steve Marshall celebrated in a ...

As a state prosecutor and district attorney, I became keenly aware that the death penalty does not serve victims or our ...

Donald Trump spent Christmas wishing ill to his enemies and wondering why President Joe Biden wouldn’t want to execute inmates ...

President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted ...