Wednesday’s scheduled execution of Stacey Ian Humphreys is on hold for now after the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles abruptly canceled a clemency hearing set for Tuesday.
Wednesday's scheduled execution of a Cobb death row inmate has been suspended as the State Board of Pardons and Paroles ...
Forty-four death row inmates across the U.S. have been executed this year, reaching a level not seen in more than a decade.
The Associated Press reported Wednesday that a judge declined to stop the execution of Stacey Humphreys, convicted of killing ...
The case has been dropped against a man who spent a quarter-century on death row for the robbery and murder of a New Jersey ...
Stacey Humphreys, 52, will be put to death by lethal injection next Wednesday, but he has one final pig out planned.
The order, which was issued Wednesday night by U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May, paves the way for Georgia to execute Humphreys next week.
The use of capital punishment has steadily declined in the United States since its peak in 1996, when 315 death sentences were imposed. That number had fallen to 26 by 2024. Alabama’s yearly death ...