Death Penalty

In a filing Friday, prosecutors announced their intention to pursue the death penalty against Payton Gendron for carrying out a racist mass shooting.
A report highlights the continuous failures of the state's capital punishment system, which executed eight people this year despite a declining death row population.
Harris County, Texas, is the death penalty capital of the country. In most cases resulting in a death sentence in the past 20 years, appointed defense lawyers failed to uncover potentially life-saving evidence, the report found.
Brent Brewer is set to be executed this week because of a state law that prohibits jurors from being told that a single holdout could block the death penalty.
“Whether you support capital punishment or oppose it, one thing is clear: From start to finish, the Oklahoma capital punishment system is fundamentally broken.”
Michael Zack’s lawyers say he had an intellectual disability. He was killed amid Gov. Ron DeSantis’ push to make it easier to execute people.
This election cycle is shaping up differently, as capital punishment rises to the forefront of GOP politics.
Execution by nitrogen hypoxia has never been implemented, though Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, originally requested it before his failed lethal injection.
GOP presidential frontrunners Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis want to execute more people. Will Biden end the federal death penalty before they have the chance?
“Today marks another sad chapter of America’s perverse fascination with state-sanctioned homicide,” Tisius’ legal team wrote in a statement.