Death Row

• Japan’s death row inmates learn they’re being executed on the same day. Now 2 are suing

  The practice of not informing inmates until shortly before execution has long been decried by international human rights organizations for the stress it places on prisoners.

  World

  Nov 5, 2021
  
• Dog scheduled to be destroyed after killing poodle given another chance by B.C. judge

  Bronx, a five-year-old Rotweiller mix, killed a small poodle with only a single bite in August 2018.

  Canada

  Oct 6, 2021
  
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• Fate of Canadian man on death row in Montana remains uncertain amid proposed law 

  The fate of a Canadian man on death row in Montana could become more tenuous as the state gets closer to removing obstacles that prevent it from resuming executions.

  Crime

  Apr 5, 2021
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• ‘Grim Sleeper’ serial killer found dead in Calif. prison cell

  Lonnie Franklin, 67, was on death row for killing 10 women in California.

  World

  Mar 30, 2020
• ‘Just Mercy’ review: Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx shine in heartbreaking true story

  'Just Mercy' is an emotional, heavy movie, anchored by incredible performances.

  Entertainment

  Jan 10, 2020
• How a 1937 mafia hit and wrongful conviction led Gov. Gavin Newsom to suspend death penalty in California

  California Gov. Gavin Newsom was about 10 years old when he met a man wrongfully convicted of murder.

  World

  Mar 14, 2019
• Suge Knight’s son doubles down, claims the late Tupac Shakur is ‘in studio’

  "I got Pac back in the studio. New music coming," claimed Suge J. Knight. "This ain't a joke."

  Entertainment

  Jan 23, 2019
• Tennessee executes man convicted in rape, murder of 7-year-old girl in 1985

  Tennessee conducted its first execution in nearly a decade on Thursday, administering a lethal injection to a man convicted of the 1985 rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl he was babysitting.

  Crime

  Aug 9, 2018
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• ‘Send him home:’ Dad of Canadian on death row breaks silence weeks before passing away

  Ronald Smith's father still had a bedroom and a vintage car waiting for the day his son might come home to Alberta from the Montana prison where he has been on death row for 35 years.

  Features

  May 7, 2018
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• Parents of Canadian jailed in Florida for murder hoping governor will lend them an ear

  "We are appealing to you as aging parents who only want to see our son back home," the Davies write in the letter.

  Crime

  Oct 6, 2017