Death penalty cases articles
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Alabama woman, 44, faces DEATH PENALTY after 'pushing woman, 37, off cliff to her death' and posting chilling picture from where victim's remains were found
An Alabama woman is accused of by pushing a mother off a cliff. Loretta Kay Carr, 44, and her daughter were charged with murder in June 2023. It emerged that Carr shared a photo of her by the murder spot in January 2019
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Editorial: Of course the death penalty is racist. And it would be wrong even if it weren't
Civil rights organizations and defense attorneys last month asked the California Supreme Court to invalidate the death penalty in this state for being irredeemably racist. Around the same time, Alameda County Dist. Atty. Pamela Price announced that a federal judge had ordered her to review 35 cases her office had handled over the last three decades after she discovered evidence that prosecutors systematically excluded Black and Jewish people from juries hearing capital cases. As written, death...
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Newsom leaves the Vatican with pope's praise for refusing to impose the death penalty
In an opulent hall in the Apostolic Palace framed in marble and adorned with Renaissance murals, Gov. Gavin Newsom waited in a line of governors, mayors and scientists for an opportunity to greet Pope Francis. The queue wasn’t the ideal setup envisioned by the governor’s advisors. Newsom traveled more than 6,000 miles from California to the Vatican to give a speech before — and hopefully talk with — the pope about climate change. Pope Francis, however, had other topics on his mind besides the...