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News Articles: Death Penalty

This undated photo provided by Georgia Department of Corrections shows Keith Leroy Tharpe. Georgia is preparing to put to death Tharpe, who killed his sister-in-law 27 years ago.

Lawyers Ask Panel To Spare Life Of Inmate Set For Execution

A Georgia prisoner scheduled for execution this week has spent the last 27 years regretting the decisions that led him to kill his sister-in-law as she...

September 25, 2017
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By:
  • Kate Brumback and
  • Associated Press
J.W. Ledford Jr. was put to death Tuesday, May 16, 2017, by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital.

Georgia Executes Man Who Killed Elderly Neighbor In 1992

Georgia on Wednesday carried out its first execution this year, putting to death a man convicted of killing his 73-year-old neighbor 25 years ago. J.W....

May 17, 2017
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By:
  • Kate Brumback and
  • Associated Press
Death row inmate J.W. Ledford Jr. is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday, May 16, 2017.

Georgia Prepares First Execution Of The Year

The State Board of Pardons and Paroles has declined to commute the death sentence of J.W. Ledford. His execution is scheduled to be carried out Tuesday,...

May 16, 2017
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By:
  • Celeste Headlee and
  • Sean Powers
J.W. Ledford Jr., poses for a photo. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said in a news release Wednesday, April 26, 2017, that 45-year-old Ledford, a death row inmate convicted of killing a 73-year-old doctor, is scheduled to die May 16.

Lawyers Cite Troubled Past In Plea To Spare Inmate's Life

Lawyers for a Georgia inmate scheduled for execution next week are asking the state parole board to spare his life, citing a rough childhood, substance...

May 12, 2017
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By:
  • Kate Brumback
J.W. Ledford Jr., poses for a photo. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said in a news release Wednesday, April 26, 2017, that 45-year-old Ledford, a death row inmate convicted of killing a 73-year-old doctor, is scheduled to die May 16.

Georgia Sets Execution For Man Convicted Of Killing Doctor

A Georgia death-row inmate convicted of killing a 73-year-old doctor 25 years ago is set for execution next month, the state's attorney general said...

April 27, 2017
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By:
  • Kate Brumback and
  • Associated Press
In this Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015 file photo, a unidentified prisoner on death row stands in his cell at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, in Jackson, Ga.

New Conservative Coalition Joins Fight To End Death Penalty

Georgia led the nation last year in death row executions. Nine men were put to death by lethal injection in 2016. That’s more executions than any other...

January 23, 2017
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By:
  • Celeste Headlee and
  • Sean Powers
From top to bottom and left to right, the eight men Georgia has executed in 2016 and William Sallie, bottom-right, whose execution is scheduled for Dec. 6.

Georgia's Capital Punishment Contradiction: More Executions, Fewer Death Sentences

Update 12/07/2016: The Supreme Court of Georgia and U.S. Supreme Court denied Sallie’s attorney’s requests for a stay of execution Tuesday. Sallie was...

December 07, 2016
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By:
  • Sam Whitehead

Living Lessons From A Decades-Old Death Penalty Case

Georgia is set to break an unusual record on November 16, 2016 with the planned execution of Steven Frederick Spears. Spears is on death row for the...

November 17, 2016
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By:
  • Celeste Headlee

On Second Thought For Wednesday, November 16, 2016

According to a National Science Foundation report from 2014, Hispanic college students received only 12 percent of science and engineering bachelor’s...

November 16, 2016
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By:
  • Celeste Headlee
The area set aside for Death Penalty supporters outside  Jackson Diagnostic Prison during Kelly Gissendaner's 2015 execution.

Coming Execution Would Mark Georgia Milestone

Should the State of Georgia execute Gregory Paul Lawler as planned on Wednesday, it will mark a milestone in at least two different ways. Lawler was...

October 19, 2016
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship

Pfizer To Stop Selling Lethal Injection Drugs, Now What?

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer made a big announcement recently. The company will no longer allow its products to be used for executions. Pfizer was the...

May 25, 2016
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By:
  • Celeste Headlee and
  • Linda Chen

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