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The Oklahoman · 8h

Oklahoma death row inmate Brenda Andrew may get new trial: What to know about her case

Oklahoma death row inmate Brenda Andrew could get another trial after the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in and said she may not have been treated fairly.

CNN on MSN · 1d

Supreme Court revives case of death row inmate who says she was ‘sex-shamed’ at trial

The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a challenge by a death row inmate in Oklahoma who claims prosecutors “sex-shamed” her during her trial, referring to her as a “slut puppy” and holding up her thong for the jury.

The Associated Press on MSN · 1d

Supreme Court grants new hearing for death row inmate whose case included evidence of her sexual history

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered lower courts to review the case of the only woman on Oklahoma's death row over concerns that prosecutors' discussion of her sexual history rendered her trial unfair in the murder of her estranged husband.

Trump, death penalty

Trump targets Supreme Court precedents in new death penalty order

The president directed the attorney general to take “all appropriate action to seek the overruling” of high court precedents that limit executions.

Miami Herald on MSN · 2h

Trump suggests state death penalty for those commuted by Biden. Is that possible?

Though Trump is unable to put the commuted inmates back on death row, he did ask the attorney general in the order to “take all lawful and appropriate action to ensure that these offenders are imprisoned in conditions consistent with the monstrosity of their crimes and the threats they pose.”

The Marshall Project · 2h

Trump’s New Order to Expand the Death Penalty Misses Key Details

The order shows the president’s desire for more executions. But it’s unclear how the administration will carry out its plans, legal experts say.

2hon MSN

Maricopa County prosecutors pursue death penalty against Paul Jon Thomas in pair of deaths

Maricopa prosecutors are pursuing the death penalty against a man accused of killing his ex-wife and another man last year.

6hon MSN

Oklahoma's only woman on death row says trial unfairly targeted her personal life

Brenda Andrew, a former Sunday school teacher, argued that evidence about her personal life wasn't fair to use during her ...

8hon MSN

State seeks death penalty, grand jury indicts man for murder of bike-riding teen

Bryan Herrera, 16, was shot and killed while riding his bicycle in Miami just a few days before Christmas in 2012.

The Texas Tribune on MSN4h

Fewer Texans sentenced to death, executed amid 'evolving standards of decency'

Texas continues to lead other states on capital punishment. But the decline in new death sentences and executions reached a ...

15h

Killer wife's thongs paraded in court - and it could save her from death penalty

Supreme Court justices have sent Brenda Andrew's death penalty conviction back to a lower court for reconsideration after ...

philstar.com15h

Death penalty by firing squad proposed for convicted corrupt gov't officials

A House lawmaker filed a bill proposing the death penalty for public officials convicted of corruption, with execution by ...

22h

Woman who prosecutors called ‘slut puppy’ can challenge death sentence

Brenda Andrew was convicted of murder in a 2004 trial where prosecutors presented evidence about her sex life.

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