Oldest man on death row buried in TDCJ cemetery

Trustees lower the remains of Jack Harry Smith, the oldest inmate on Texas' death row, on Thursday, Apr 28, 2016, in Huntsville. Ph: Eli...

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Texas Prisons Assert Right to Censor Inmates' Families on Social Media

On the morning of April 15, Pat Hartwell drove up from her home in Houston, Texas, to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Austin, where the Texas Depa...

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In Texas, Death Row Inmates Through the Eyes of a New York Artist

Peter Charlap A supermax prison isn’t the best place to sit for a portrait, but Peter Charlap’s subjects have no other choice. CHRIS YOUNG, ...

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6x9: A virtual experience of solitary confinement

The Guardian 's virtual reality video sends you to solitary. Could you handle it for a day? A decade? What’s it like to spend 23 hours a...

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Few on Louisiana's death row are ever executed, largely owing to reversals, analysis finds

Louisiana death row Louisiana, which has led the nation in homicide rates every year since 1989, sentences plenty of murderers to death but ...

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Georgia executes Daniel Lucas

Daniel Anthony Lucas A man sent to death row for killing two children and their father in 1998 was executed in Georgia on Wednesday. Daniel ...

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Arizona Faces Drug-Expiration Deadline for Executions

Arizona's supply of a crucial lethal injection drug is set to expire as a federal judge decides the fate of a lawsuit that has stopped a...

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Did An Innocent Man Just Die On Texas' Death Row?

Typical death row cell, Polunsky Unit, Livingston, Texas Most death row inmates may be racing against time when it comes down to their final...

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Board of Pardons and Paroles denies clemency for Georgia death row inmate scheduled to die Wednesday

Daniel Lucas The state parole board has denied clemency for a Georgia death row inmate scheduled to die this week. Daniel Anthony Lucas is s...

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On death row 35 years, Texas inmate dies of natural causes

Typical death-row cell, Polunsky Unit, Texas Texas prison officials say a man on death row for 35 years for a Houston robbery where 3 people...

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These days, North Carolina’s death row inmates die of natural causes

RALEIGH - When Jerry Cummings died last week at age 76, he became the ninth death row inmate in North Carolina to die of natural causes sinc...

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Supreme Court Sketch Artist Caught Clarence Thomas Sleeping And The Drawing Is Going Viral

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Caught Sleeping Clarence Thomas may well be the most enigmatic person to ever serve as a justice ...

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Tennessee death row inmates die of natural causes

Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, Tennessee NASHVILLE - Death Row inmate Gary Cone has passed away at the age of 67. He was pronounced...

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