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Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that ...

Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that ...

Five death row inmates were put to death in the US over the past week, a pace unprecedented since July 2003. With the deaths ...

Alan Eugene Miller was executed in Alabama, making him the second American to be executed by inhaling nitrogen gas. Miller, ...

More than half of American states have abolished the death penalty or hit pause on executions. Less than half —47%—of ...

The execution of Alan Eugene Miller marks the fifth this week in the US - its greatest use of capital punishment since 2003.

The state of South Carolina on Friday strapped down Freddie Owens and injected him with a chemical that’s usually used to ...

Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week. This was the first time in more than 20 ...

Miller was convicted of murdering three co-workers during two back-to-back shootings one morning in 1999 in suburban ...

The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...