Nation Apr 25 Texas woman’s last-minute reprieve on death row draws questions about wrongful convictions By Amna Nawaz, Frank Carlson
Nation Jun 16 U.S. Supreme Court halts Texas execution over clergy question The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a reprieve to a Texas inmate scheduled to die for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than two decades ago, continuing a more than four-month delay of executions in the nation's busiest death penalty… By Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press
Nation Mar 05 Alabama execution stayed by U.S. Supreme Court to review appeal 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 Watch 5:46 Federal executions to resume, despite falling public support for death penalty 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 Watch Supreme Court Stays Execution Ahead of Pivotal Case 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…