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Death Row Attorney Files Legal Action Challenging Texas Use of Expired Execution Drugs

Posted by Gracyann Joslin
|Date: January 07, 2023
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Death Row Attorney Files Legal Action Challenging Texas Use of Expired Execution Drugs

By Leslie Acevedo AUSTIN, TX - Shawn Nolan—an attorney for death row prisoners Wesley Ruiz and John Leze ...

By Leslie Acevedo AUSTIN, TX - Shawn Nolan—an attorney for death row prisoners Wesley Ruiz and John Lezell Balentine, whose executions are set for Feb. 1 and Feb. 8—this week charged a divided Texas ...

January 07, 2023
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Three Death Row Inmates File Lawsuit against Texas for Planning to Use Expired Execution Drugs in Upcoming Executions

Posted by Gracyann Joslin
|Date: January 05, 2023
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Three Death Row Inmates File Lawsuit against Texas for Planning to Use Expired Execution Drugs in Upcoming Executions

By Rena Abdusalam AUSTIN, TX - If it goes through with its upcoming executions, Texas will allegedly be v ...

By Rena Abdusalam AUSTIN, TX - If it goes through with its upcoming executions, Texas will allegedly be violating its own laws and generating significant risks of pain and agony for their inmates thro ...

January 05, 2023
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DPIC REPORT: Nearly Half of U.S. Death Penalty Executions in 2022 Botched

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|Date: December 18, 2022
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DPIC REPORT: Nearly Half of U.S. Death Penalty Executions in 2022 Botched

By The Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC – Seven of 18 execution attempts nationally in 2022—across six state ...

By The Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC – Seven of 18 execution attempts nationally in 2022—across six states—were botched, according to a new report by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC). In fo ...

December 18, 2022
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Missouri Executes Black Man after Courts Refuse Appeals – Lawmaker Charges ‘Criminal Justice System’ Failed Kevin Johnson

Posted by Taylor Smith
|Date: December 02, 2022
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Missouri Executes Black Man after Courts Refuse Appeals – Lawmaker Charges ‘Criminal Justice System’ Failed Kevin Johnson

By Taylor Smith and Alyssa Eng BONNE TERRE, MO – U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (MO) has released a statement critic ...

By Taylor Smith and Alyssa Eng BONNE TERRE, MO – U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (MO) has released a statement critical of the execution, after 17 years on death row, of Kevin Johnson who was executed Tuesday nig ...

December 02, 2022
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Congressional Representatives Bush and Cleaver Urge Missouri Governor to Grant Clemency to Death Row Inmate Kevin Johnson

Posted by Daniella Dueñas
|Date: November 28, 2022
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Congressional Representatives Bush and Cleaver Urge Missouri Governor to Grant Clemency to Death Row Inmate Kevin Johnson

By Daniella Dueñas and Caleigh Carlisle WASHINGTON, DC - Since Rep. Cori Bush (MO-01) assumed office in C ...

By Daniella Dueñas and Caleigh Carlisle WASHINGTON, DC - Since Rep. Cori Bush (MO-01) assumed office in Congress, she has led the battle against the continued use of capital punishment and urged lawma ...

November 28, 2022
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Missouri Law Bars Daughter, 19, from Witnessing Father’s Execution

Posted by Paloma Sifuentes
|Date: November 25, 2022
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Missouri Law Bars Daughter, 19, from Witnessing Father’s Execution

By Paloma Sifuentes and Daniella Dueñas KANSAS CITY, MO - Corionsa “Khorry” Ramey is just 19, but is goin ...

By Paloma Sifuentes and Daniella Dueñas KANSAS CITY, MO - Corionsa “Khorry” Ramey is just 19, but is going to court to allow her to be present at her father’s (Kevin Johnson) execution. Johnson is sch ...

November 25, 2022
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Oklahoma Court Rejects Richard Glossip’s Hearing Application, Despite Defense Claim of New Evidence

Posted by Taylor Smith
|Date: November 18, 2022
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Oklahoma Court Rejects Richard Glossip’s Hearing Application, Despite Defense Claim of New Evidence

By Daniella Dueñas OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals Thursday denied another req ...

By Daniella Dueñas OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals Thursday denied another request from death row inmate Richard Glossip for a hearing to delay Glossip’s execution here, and ...

November 18, 2022
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4 State Executions Scheduled This Week Across U.S. – Texas, Alabama, Arizona, Oklahoma

Posted by Leila Katibah
|Date: November 17, 2022
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4 State Executions Scheduled This Week Across U.S. – Texas, Alabama, Arizona, Oklahoma

By Leila Katibah During the week of Nov.17, four men across the U.S. are scheduled to be executed, highli ...

By Leila Katibah During the week of Nov.17, four men across the U.S. are scheduled to be executed, highlighting the current trends in state executions and the continued deployment of the death penalty ...

November 17, 2022
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Governor’s Mansion ‘Don’t Kill for Me’ Demonstration Protest Scheduled for Thursday Oklahoma Execution of Brain-Damaged Richard Fairchild

Posted by Leslie Acevedo
|Date: November 16, 2022
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Governor’s Mansion ‘Don’t Kill for Me’ Demonstration Protest Scheduled for Thursday Oklahoma Execution of Brain-Damaged Richard Fairchild

By Paloma Sifuentes and Leslie Acevedo OKLAHOMA CITY, OK: The Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Pen ...

By Paloma Sifuentes and Leslie Acevedo OKLAHOMA CITY, OK: The Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty asked the public to join them in a demonstration in protest of the scheduled execution of ...

November 16, 2022
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Texas Sets Execution for Andre Thomas, Person with Mental Illness Who Gouged Out Eyes and Ate One

Posted by Rena Abdusalam
|Date: November 13, 2022
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Texas Sets Execution for Andre Thomas, Person with Mental Illness Who Gouged Out Eyes and Ate One

By Rena Abdusalam HUNTSVILLE, TX - Andre Thomas, a schizophrenic Black man currently on Texas death row, ...

By Rena Abdusalam HUNTSVILLE, TX - Andre Thomas, a schizophrenic Black man currently on Texas death row, has been set an execution date of April 5, 2023, according to the 15th District Court of Grayso ...

November 13, 2022
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Another Glossip Execution Reprieve after Claims of Prosecutorial Misconduct

Posted by Talia Kruger
|Date: November 10, 2022
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Another Glossip Execution Reprieve after Claims of Prosecutorial Misconduct

By Amy Berberyan and Talia Kruger OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has issued an executive o ...

By Amy Berberyan and Talia Kruger OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has issued an executive order for a second reprieve for Richard Glossip, a former motel manager who has been on death ro ...

November 10, 2022
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Attorneys in Death Row Prisoner Appeal Demand Audiotapes from Controversial Evidentiary Hearing

Posted by Alexis Rios-Jimenez
|Date: November 04, 2022
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Attorneys in Death Row Prisoner Appeal Demand Audiotapes from Controversial Evidentiary Hearing

By Alexis Rios-Jimenez AUSTIN, TX- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has received a request from death ...

By Alexis Rios-Jimenez AUSTIN, TX- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has received a request from death row prisoner Rodney Reed’s attorneys to compel the release of the audiotape from the Evidentiar ...

November 04, 2022
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Federal Prison Refuses to Send Death Row Man with Disabilities to Oklahoma to Be Executed

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 29, 2022
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Federal Prison Refuses to Send Death Row Man with Disabilities to Oklahoma to Be Executed

By The Vanguard Staff OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Earlier this week, a man slated for execution soon here—who has ...

By The Vanguard Staff OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Earlier this week, a man slated for execution soon here—who has multiple mental illnesses, brain damage and autism, claim his lawyers—was not sent to a facili ...

October 29, 2022
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Chief Stankewitz Moves a Step Closer to Freedom with Judge’s Order

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|Date: October 11, 2022
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Chief Stankewitz Moves a Step Closer to Freedom with Judge’s Order

By Robert J. Hansen Almost two weeks ago, a California judge ordered the state of California and the Atto ...

By Robert J. Hansen Almost two weeks ago, a California judge ordered the state of California and the Attorney General’s Office to show cause why the murder conviction of the inmate who has served 43 y ...

October 11, 2022
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Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board Denies Clemency for Death Row’s Benjamin Cole – Defense Team Turns to Other Venues

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: September 28, 2022
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Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board Denies Clemency for Death Row’s Benjamin Cole – Defense Team Turns to Other Venues

By Naya Wiezel OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - Benjamin Cole, a death row inmate, was denied clemency by the OK Pardo ...

By Naya Wiezel OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - Benjamin Cole, a death row inmate, was denied clemency by the OK Pardon and Parole Board this week, despite substantial evidence of both severe mental illness and ph ...

September 28, 2022
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Glossip Lawyers File 2nd Petition to Oklahoma Appeals Court Asserting Evidence of Informant’s Efforts to Recant Were Withheld from Glossip Attorneys

Posted by Rena Abdusalam
|Date: September 24, 2022
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Glossip Lawyers File 2nd Petition to Oklahoma Appeals Court Asserting Evidence of Informant’s Efforts to Recant Were Withheld from Glossip Attorneys

By Rena Abdusalam OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - Lawyers for death row inmate Richard Glossip filed a Brady applica ...

By Rena Abdusalam OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - Lawyers for death row inmate Richard Glossip filed a Brady application for post-conviction relief with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals late this week. Rev ...

September 24, 2022
| by Rena Abdusalam

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Clemency Petition Filed on Behalf of Disabled Man on Oklahoma Death Row Claims Execution Would Be ‘Inhumane Spectacle’

Posted by Leila Katibah
|Date: September 20, 2022
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Clemency Petition Filed on Behalf of Disabled Man on Oklahoma Death Row Claims Execution Would Be ‘Inhumane Spectacle’

By Leila Katibah & Wayne Chan OKLAHOMA CITY - “Mercilessly executing a man this disabled would be an ...

By Leila Katibah & Wayne Chan OKLAHOMA CITY - “Mercilessly executing a man this disabled would be an inhumane spectacle beneath our individual and collective dignity,” argued Assistant Federal Pub ...

September 20, 2022
| by Leila Katibah

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Former GOP Lawmaker, Victim, Former Corrections Chief Urge Governor to Commute Thursday Death Sentence

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|Date: August 23, 2022
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Former GOP Lawmaker, Victim, Former Corrections Chief Urge Governor to Commute Thursday Death Sentence

By The Vanguard Staff OAKLOMA CITY, OK – James Coddington is due to be executed here Thursday, but Monday ...

By The Vanguard Staff OAKLOMA CITY, OK – James Coddington is due to be executed here Thursday, but Monday received strong support from a myriad of people who said they believe Coddington is a changed ...

August 23, 2022
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Petition Filed, OK Lawmakers Urge Clemency for Glossip, Now on Death Row

Posted by Amy Berberyan
|Date: August 14, 2022
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Petition Filed, OK Lawmakers Urge Clemency for Glossip, Now on Death Row

By Amy Berberyan OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Death row inmate Richard Glossip’s attorneys filed a clemency petiti ...

By Amy Berberyan OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Death row inmate Richard Glossip’s attorneys filed a clemency petition late this week in an effort to prevent the State of Oklahoma from a fourth execution attempt ...

August 14, 2022
| by Amy Berberyan

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Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board Recommends Clemency for James Coddington – Up to Governor Now

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|Date: August 04, 2022
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Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board Recommends Clemency for James Coddington – Up to Governor Now

By Vanguard Staff OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 to Wednesday to reco ...

By Vanguard Staff OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 to Wednesday to recommend death row prisoner James Coddington’s death sentence be commuted to life without the poss ...

August 04, 2022
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