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"Bizarre" SCOTUS death penalty hearing

Even Oklahoma's Republican attorney general backs Richard Glossip — but court is focused on "procedural niceties"

Salon

‘Unconventional’ party platform heavy on partisan attacks - Roll Call

The Democratic Party platform is a combination of broad appeals to voters and specific policy plans sought by constituent groups.

Roll Call

States try to obscure execution details as drugmakers hinder lethal injection

In 2011, Jeffrey Motts was executed in South Carolina. More than a decade later, the state hasn’t carried out another execution because officials have struggled to obtain the drugs needed for lethal injection.

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Is bringing back firing squads for executions a good idea?

The image of gunmen in a row firing in unison into the chest of a condemned prisoner may conjure up a bygone, less enlightened era

The Independent UK

Alex Murdaugh avoided death sentence because of ‘racial and class privilege,’ observers say

Murdaugh family has presided for generations over South Carolina courts

The Independent UK

US ‘botched’ executions reach all-time high, report finds

Seven of 20 attempted executions in 2022 were ‘visibly problematic’, research group says, but practice is in decline.

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