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Donnie Cleveland Lance
UPDATE: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 Donnie Cleveland Lance was executed by lethal injection by the state of Georgia. This was the country’s second execution of 2020 and Georgia’s first of the year. The state of Georgia plans to execute Donnie Cleveland Lance on Wednesday, January 29, 2020 for the 1999 murders of his ex-wife Sabrina “Joy” Lance, and her…
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Nicholas Todd Sutton
The state of Tennessee plans to execute Nicholas Todd Sutton on Thursday, February 20, 2020 for the 1985 murder of fellow inmate Carl Estep at the Morgan County Regional Correctional Facility. The Catholic Church teaches that the death penalty is unacceptable in all cases because it is “an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.” (Catholic Catechism…
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Dustin Lee Honken
Current Status of the Federal Death Penalty: On June 15, the U.S. Department of Justice scheduled three executions to take place over a five-day span beginning July 13. A fourth execution has been scheduled for the end of August. The legality of the federal government’s execution protocol is still being contested. The situation concerning the planned…
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Wesley Ira Purkey
Current Status of the Federal Death Penalty: On June 15, the U.S. Department of Justice scheduled three executions to take place over a five-day span beginning July 13. A fourth execution has been scheduled for the end of August. The legality of the federal government’s execution protocol is still being contested. The situation concerning the planned…
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Lezmond Mitchell
Case Specific Information for Lezmond Mitchell: “With the enactment of the Federal Death Penalty Act, Congress made a commitment to the Native American peoples that no Native American would be subjected to the death penalty for a crime committed against a fellow Native American on Native American land unless the tribe consented. In what the…
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Daniel Lewis Lee
Current Status of the Federal Death Penalty: On June 15, the U.S. Department of Justice scheduled three executions to take place over a five-day span beginning July 13. A fourth execution has been scheduled for the end of August. The legality of the federal government’s execution protocol is still being contested. The situation concerning the planned…
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