

Nation Mar 05

Woods and co-defendant Kerry Spencer were sentenced to death in the slaying of three Birmingham police officers in 2004.
By Kim Chandler, Associated Press
Nation Jul 25

Attorney General William Barr has announced that the federal government will resume enforcement of the death penalty. No federal executions have occurred since 2003, in the face of increasing litigation over the constitutionality of the punishment. Amna Nawaz talks to…
Politics Oct 31

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to stay an execution by lethal injection in Mississippi, the third such decision halting an execution ahead of a case that will test the constitutionality of lethal injections. The National Law Journal's Marcia Coyle discusses…
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