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Nov. 20, 2020

Orlando Hall, 49, is the eighth inmate to be executed by the federal government this year after a 17-year hiatus on executions (access full article). A judge's stay over…

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Nov. 20, 2020

Orlando Hall, 49, is the eighth inmate to be executed by the federal government this year after a 17-year hiatus on executions (article available here). A judge's stay over concerns about the execution…

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Nov. 20, 2020

Orlando Hall, 49, is the eighth inmate to be executed by the federal government this year after a 17-year hiatus on executions (article available here). A judge's stay over concerns about the execution…

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Nov. 18, 2020

Justice Kimberley S. Budd, 54, was confirmed on Wednesday as the first Black woman to serve as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, which traces its history to the late 17th century (…

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Oct. 5, 2020

Pope Francis has abolished the death penalty in the Catholic Church with his issuance of a new encyclical known as the “Fratelli Tutti.” The death penalty is…

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Sep. 24, 2020

The federal government executed the seventh person in a span of just over two months and the second this week (article available here). Christopher Vialva, 40, was…

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Sep. 24, 2020

The federal government executed the seventh person in a span of just over two months and the second this week (access full article.…

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Sep. 24, 2020

The federal government executed the seventh person in a span of just over two months and the second this week (article available here). Christopher Vialva, 40, was…

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Sep. 22, 2020

A former U.S. soldier, William Emmett LeCroy, 50, on Tuesday became the sixth federal inmate executed by lethal injection since July of this year at the Federal Correction Institution in Terre Haute (article available…

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Sep. 22, 2020

A former U.S. soldier, William Emmett LeCroy, 50, on Tuesday became the sixth federal inmate executed by lethal injection since July of this year at the Federal Correction Institution in Terre Haute (…

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