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March 12, 2026

Death Penalty

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Drug dealer faces execution for 7 gang killings in Virginia

January 14, 2021 Denise Lavoie, Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. — It was one of the worst bursts of gang violence Richmond had ever seen. At least 11 people were killed in a 45-day period in 1992, all at the hands of gang […]

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Trump administration plans 2nd execution in as many days

December 11, 2020 Michael Tarm, Associated Press

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — The Trump administration plans to continue federal executions Friday by putting to death a Louisiana truck driver who severely abused his 2-year-old daughter for weeks in 2002, then killed her by […]

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US carries out the 1st federal execution in nearly 2 decades

July 14, 2020 Michael Balsamo, Associated Press

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — The federal government on Tuesday carried out its first execution in almost two decades, killing by lethal injection a man convicted of murdering an Arkansas family in a 1990s plot to […]

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Judge blocks federal executions; administration appeals

July 13, 2020 Michael Balsamo, Associated Press

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A U.S. district judge on Monday ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out at a federal prison in Indiana. […]

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NC Supreme Court revives Racial Justice Act in limited cases

June 10, 2020 North State Journal Staff

RALEIGH — Associate Justice Anita Earls of the North Carolina Supreme Court wrote a decision, published June 5 and supported by six out of seven justices, that allowed prisoners on death row who had already […]

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North Carolina high court hears case on race, death penalty

August 28, 2019 Martha Waggoner | The Associated Press

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s highest court began weighing a claim Monday by six inmates on death row who say they are there because of racial discrimination in jury selection — and who argue they are […]

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