Nebraska’s lethal injection chamber at the State Penitentiary in Lincoln. After briefly repealing its death penalty only to have it reinstated by voters, Nebraska has resumed an effort to acquire drugs needed to carry out executions for the first time in decades.
Category: Death Penalty
Investigation Discovery to Present World Premiere Docu-Series Killing Richard Glossip, 3/5
For almost twenty years, two men convicted of murder one on death row, and the other sentenced to life without parole maintain two very different accounts of what led to the slaying of Barry Van Treese on January 7, 1997, at the Best Budget Inn in Oklahoma City. Richard Glossip, a man with no prior felony convictions, has consistently maintained his innocence, insisting that he had no knowledge that anyone planned to kill Van Treese.
Executions and death sentences plummeted this year as capital punishment declined nationwide
A year that began with the U.S. Supreme Court striking down the death penalty in one of the most active capital punishment states ended with the country reaching modern lows in executions and death sentences, the most glaring signs yet about how the practice has dwindled in America today. Still, even as capital punishment has declined in both sentencing and practice, there were also signs this year of its persistence from lawmakers, judges and the public, reminders that the death penalty is far from fading away.
Pervert slumlord jailed for filming tenants having sex in his shed
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