15 MINUTES. CAMERON. YEAH, BACK TO THE BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING. OKLAHOMA DEATH ROW INMATE TRAMAINE WOOD WAS JUST SAVED FROM EXECUTION AT THE LAST MINUTE. A DRAMATIC MOVE FROM GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT ...
James Ernest Hitchcock was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in 1977 Florida Department of Corrections James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, was executed on April 30 at Florida State ...
Texas has executed a death row inmate who fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son in a fit of rage before he turned the knife on her 12-year-old son, who miraculously survived the attack ...
The State of Florida executed 70-year-old James Ernest Hitchcock by lethal injection at 6:00 p.m. Thursday, ending a legal saga that spanned five decades and multiple death sentences. The three-drug ...
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Florida plans to execute James E. Hitchcock, which would be the state's sixth execution in 2026. The state has faced scrutiny over its accelerated pace of executions and its lethal injection protocols ...
The state of Texas is set to move forward with the execution of James Garfield Broadnax on Thursday, nearly two decades after a double murder unfolded in North Texas. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ...
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James Hitchcock has lived under a death sentence for nearly half a century. On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay his execution. James Hitchcock appears in Florida prison mug shots ...
The U.S. Department of Justice’s decision to allow firing squad executions for federal death row inmates won’t immediately — or possibly, ever — affect Texas, but the move is drawing renewed attention ...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday that it will resume the federal use of capital punishment, and that it is seeking death sentences against 44 defendants. The DOJ also said that it ...
The Department of Justice has directed federal prisons to expand the range of methods used for executions to include firing squads, gas asphyxiation and electrocution. In a memo released on April 24, ...