State's longest-serving death row inmate dies after 42 years in jail

Fred Singleton, 81, was sentenced to die in 1983 for raping and strangling a woman in Newberry County and stealing her ...

U.S. executes first Black man since resumption of federal death penalty

The U.S. government executed convicted murderer Christopher Vialva on Thursday, the first Black man to suffer the federal death penalty since the punishment was resumed this summer after a 17-year ...

Texas Inmate on Death Row for Daughter’s Death Gets Stay of Execution in 'Shaken Baby' Case

Robert Roberson has been on death row since 2003 but has long maintained his innocence in the death of his 2-year-old ...
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AI Tupac Video Called Out By Concerned Fans: "Disturbing And Disrespectful"

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has several pros and cons, but a newly-surfaced video of Tupac has fans ready to boycott the technology. In the video, the late rapper is shopping in Target with “fans” ...
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Indiana death row inmate denied clemency, will be executed next week

MILLION GRANT AWARDED IN 2020 FOR INDIANA WILL EXECUTE A DEATH ROW INMATE. NEXT WEEK. GOVERNOR MIKE BRAUN HAS DENIED CLEMENCY FOR ROY WARD, ALLOWING HIS EXECUTION TO PROCEED AS SCHEDULED FOR NEXT ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Assata Shakur, Tupac's godmother who sought political asylum in Cuba, dead at 78

Assata Shakur, a political activist and the godmother of pioneering rapper Tupac Shakur, died Sept. 25. She was 78. Her death was confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cuba, where she had ...
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Alabama death row inmate gets support for commutation from victim’s son

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Anti-death penalty advocates spoke out against the execution of an Alabama death row inmate during a protest Tuesday afternoon. They were joined by an unlikely ally; Will ...
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October London Is Reviving Death Row’s Original Multigenre Vision

South Bend, Indiana-born singer-songwriter October London might be the closest we’ve come to seeing the full aspiration of the original Death Row Records, founded in 1991 by The D.O.C., Dr. Dre, Suge ...