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Page Text: Ketanji Brown Jackson has been con­firmed as the first African-American woman to serve as a jus­tice of the United States Supreme Court. On April 7, 2022, by a vote of 53 – 47, the U.S. Senate con­firmed Presi… Upcoming Executions Arizona Sets Expedited Execution Date for Blind, Disabled Prisoner Previously Judged Legally Insane The Arizona Supreme Court has set an exe­cu­tion date of May 11 for Clarence Dixon, a death-row pris­on­er who is blind and has such severe men­tal ill­ness that he was once judged legal­ly insane. Dixon is a mem­ber of t… Intellectual Disability Singapore Resumes Hangings for Drug Offenses, Provoking Outrage, Rare Public Protest In a move sharply crit­i­cized by rights advo­cates as a vio­la­tion of inter­na­tion­al human rights law, Singapore has resumed exe­cu­tions for non-vio­lent drug offens­es. On March 30, 2022, the author­i­tar­i­an city/​state hanged Abd… Methods of Execution Apr 06, 2022 South Carolina Death-Row Prisoners File Suit to Block Firing-Squad Executions Until Courts Address Challenges to Execution Methods Lawyers for three men on South Carolina’s death row have asked the state supreme court to defer set­ting exe­cu­tion dates until the courts resolve pend­ing legal chal­lenges to the state’s con­tro­ver­sial exe­cu­tion meth­ods. The… Clemency Apr 05, 2022 Oldest Texas Death-Row Prisoner Files Petition for Clemency Citing Time on Death Row, False Prediction that He Would be Dangerous in Prison Texas’ old­est death-row pris­on­er, Carl Wayne Buntion (pic­tured), has filed a peti­tion with the state Board of Pardons and Parole seek­ing com­mu­ta­tion of his death sen­tence to life with­out parole. Buntion is current… Federal Death Penalty

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