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Cannibal child sex killer Kevin Underwood is executed in Oklahoma as his last meal is revealed

Convicted child sex abuser and killer Kevin Underwood has been executed by the state of Oklahoma for murdering Jamie Rose Bolin in 2006 as part of a cannibalistic fantasy. Convicted child sex killer Kevin Underwood has been executed by the state of Oklahoma for murdering Jamie Rose Bolin in 2006 as part of a cannibalistic fantasy Underwood, who was put …

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Biden commutes 1,500 sentences, pardons 39 non-violent offenders in historic clemency action

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President Joe Biden on Thursday announced that he is commuting the sentences of some 1,500 individuals and pardoning 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes, marking a significant use of presidential clemency just weeks before the end of his administration President Joe Biden on Thursday announced that he is commuting the sentences of some 1,500 individuals and pardoning 39 people convicted …

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Joe Biden pardons 39 criminals, commutes 1,500 sentences in largest single-day act of clemency in US history

ABC

US President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 Americans who were released from prison and placed in home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. The pardons and commutations, announced by the White House on Thursday, mean Mr Biden now holds the record for the largest single-day act of …

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1 month, 1 week ago

‘He has to deliver’: Trump’s dilemma on how far to go with promised pardons for January 6 rioters

CNN

Washington CNN — It was an uncharacteristically warm November night in the nation’s capital Wednesday, when a few dozen people gathered on a street corner outside the city’s biggest jail. During his victory speech early Wednesday, Trump said, “We’re going to keep our promises.” But he hasn’t said anything publicly about the January 6 saga since before the election. Asked …

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6 months ago

Texas Plans To Execute Ramiro Gonzales

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING In 2006, Ramiro Gonzales was sentenced to death in Texas as punishment for kidnapping, raping and killing Bridget Townsend when they were both 18 years old. The rejection from Gonzales’ mother was “ever-present,” according to the clemency petition, which noted that she went on to marry and have two more children whom she raised, despite never acknowledging …

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1 year, 10 months ago

1 in 3 Californians granted mercy by Newsom remain in prison

LA Times

When Mary Reese received a call at the California Institution for Women in 2021, a prison official told her she had “won the lotto.” Gov. “My God, I wish they would see that.” Reese, who was also denied parole after receiving a commutation from Newsom, said she felt “mistreated” by the parole board and that “they had no intention of …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Transgender woman’s scheduled execution would be a first in the U.S.

LA Times

Amber McLaughlin is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for stabbing to death former girlfriend Beverly Guenther in 2003. Mike Parson grants clemency, Amber McLaughlin, 49, will become the first transgender woman executed in the U.S. She is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003. The clemency request focuses on several issues, including McLaughlin’s …

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2 years ago

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown explains why she commuted all of her state's death sentences

NPR

Kate Brown explains why she commuted all of her state's death sentences Enlarge this image toggle caption Jeff Chiu/AP Jeff Chiu/AP Oregon Gov. Sponsor Message Brown tells Morning Edition's Rachel Martin that the majority of her clemency work has been geared towards moving Oregon towards a more equitable criminal justice system — and notes that a disproportionate number of those …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Arizona death row prisoner’s clemency bid rejected by board

Associated Press

PHOENIX — Arizona’s clemency board unanimously declined on Thursday to recommend that the governor commute a man’s death sentence to life in prison, keeping the inmate’s planned execution on track for his conviction in two 1980 killings. The decision by the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency marks one of the last steps before Murray Hooper’s scheduled Nov. 16 execution for …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Melissa Lucio: Texas woman on death row receives bipartisan support for clemency from state officials

CNN

CNN — Advocates rallied Thursday in Dallas seeking clemency for a woman who is facing execution later this month after being convicted for allegedly killing her 2-year-old daughter more than a decade ago. “We are here to prevent an irreversible injustice, the government execution of Melissa Lucio because if we don’t – if the state executes her despite all of …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Hearing delayed for Oklahoma death row inmate Julius Jones

Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY — A clemency hearing for Oklahoma death row inmate Julius Jones scheduled for Tuesday has been delayed for a week while his legal challenge is pending in federal court. The five-member Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board is now set to hear Jones’ request for clemency next Tuesday while an appeal by death row inmates is pending in federal …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Former jailer seeks clemency for one death row inmate

Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. — If Richard Moore is executed, he will have some say in how he goes — the electric chair or the firing squad. Moore is one of three prisoners on South Carolina’s death row who have run out of appeals in the past six months and could be among the first to face the grim choice under a …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Delay sought after lawyers for woman on death row get virus

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The two attorneys representing the first woman scheduled to be put to death by the U.S. government in more than six decades are seeking to delay her execution because they’ve contracted coronavirus visiting their client. At a hearing on Monday, Sandra Babcock, a human rights professor and director of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, argued …

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Cannibal child sex killer Kevin Underwood is executed in Oklahoma as his last meal is revealed

Biden commutes 1,500 sentences, pardons 39 non-violent offenders in historic clemency action

Joe Biden pardons 39 criminals, commutes 1,500 sentences in largest single-day act of clemency in US history

‘He has to deliver’: Trump’s dilemma on how far to go with promised pardons for January 6 rioters

Texas Plans To Execute Ramiro Gonzales

1 in 3 Californians granted mercy by Newsom remain in prison

Transgender woman’s scheduled execution would be a first in the U.S.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown explains why she commuted all of her state's death sentences

Arizona death row prisoner’s clemency bid rejected by board

Melissa Lucio: Texas woman on death row receives bipartisan support for clemency from state officials

Hearing delayed for Oklahoma death row inmate Julius Jones

Former jailer seeks clemency for one death row inmate

Delay sought after lawyers for woman on death row get virus