deal also offered to two other key 9/11 plotters
Published: Friday, August 2nd, 2024 @ 4:50 pm
By: John Steed
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On Tuesday, Bill Graham, a Republican who entered the race for governor last week, released the first statewide television advertisement in the 2024 governor’s race.
Published: Sunday, February 25th, 2024 @ 10:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Pentagon and FBI have alerted several of the grieving families who lost relatives in the deadly 9/11 attack in which nearly 3,000 Americans were murdered that the suspected architect of the attacks and his fellow defendants may have their death sentences overturned through plea deals.
Published: Tuesday, September 12th, 2023 @ 7:50 am
By: Daily Wire
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huge deterrant and no second offenders
Published: Wednesday, April 12th, 2023 @ 8:32 am
By: John Steed
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced legislation this week that will dramatically increase the punishments faced by child rapists and drug criminals.
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2023 @ 5:36 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Justice Department will not seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing dozens of people in a racially motivated attack at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in 2019.
Published: Wednesday, January 25th, 2023 @ 7:20 am
By: Daily Wire
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Attorney General Merrick Garland is bucking President Joe Biden by seeking the death penalty for an alleged Islamist terrorist accused of killing eight and injuring more than a dozen in a 2017 New York City truck attack.
Published: Thursday, January 12th, 2023 @ 10:26 am
By: Daily Wire
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A 26-year-old professional soccer player in Iran is facing the death penalty after protesting in support of women’s rights in the nation.
Published: Friday, January 6th, 2023 @ 3:12 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Prosecutors told the man accused of crafting the bomb used in the deadliest terror attack ever to take place in the United Kingdom that they will not push for the death penalty if he is convicted.
Published: Saturday, December 24th, 2022 @ 11:55 am
By: Daily Wire
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On Thursday, Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis reacted to the sentence handed to the Parkland shooter who murdered 17 people, including 14 high school students, on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2018.
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2022 @ 11:59 am
By: Daily Wire
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A Florida jury rejected the death penalty Thursday for the Parkland school shooter who killed 17 people on Valentine’s Day 2018.
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2022 @ 10:23 am
By: Daily Wire
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Here are good reasons North Carolina should do the same.
Published: Saturday, April 17th, 2021 @ 8:47 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The parents of 5 year-old Cannon Hinnant, who was shot dead by his neighbor in North Carolina last week, are speaking out to ask that the suspect be given the death penalty.
Published: Saturday, August 22nd, 2020 @ 2:48 am
By: LifeZette
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He will live longer. His victims did not enjoy that option.
Published: Thursday, August 6th, 2020 @ 12:55 pm
By: LifeZette
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On Thursday morning, the New Hampshire Senate voted to override Gov. Chris Sununu’s veto of a bill to repeal the death penalty.
Published: Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 @ 12:11 am
By: Daily Wire
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The recent killings of four workers at an eastern N.C. prison have prompted the legislature's top two officers to call for the return of capital punishment in North Carolina
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 @ 1:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Four convicted murderers were back in court on Thursday in Fayetteville. They were put back on death row in December 2015 after the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled their case regarding the Racial Justice Act would go back to the lower courts to be heard again
Published: Tuesday, June 14th, 2016 @ 2:36 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A group of conservatives opposed to the death penalty have started raising awareness of their cause to state leaders.
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2015 @ 4:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Voters in November will be able to decide on a proposed constitutional amendment giving North Carolinians charged with a felony the option of waiving a jury trial and allowing a Superior Court judge to render a verdict.
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 1:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State senator Thom Goolsby's (R-Wilmington) bill to repeal the grossly-misnamed Racial Justice Act has cleared its first hurdle.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 3:46 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In 2009, the NC General Assembly passed S.L. 2009-464, also known as the Racial Justice Act. The law provided that in capital cases defendants could use statistical evidence to prove racial bias in their case.
Published: Monday, July 23rd, 2012 @ 7:16 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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For the activists who have fought for years to abolish North Carolina's death penalty, the just-completed short session was a crushing disappointment.
Published: Monday, July 9th, 2012 @ 9:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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