Add to ORKGOn Jan. 19, 1735, less than two years after Gen. Oglethorpe first set his feet on the soil of Georgia, the colony\u27s first known execution occurred. The condemned was a woman, Alice Ryley, an indentured servant, hanged in Savannah for the murder of her master. Another indentured servant involved in the murder, a man, was hanged the next day
In Furman v. Georgia (1972), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the capital convictions of Jackson F...
In 1972, in Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court deemed it incontestable that a death sentence is ...
The stories of those who have been executed in the Bahamas are heretofore untold. In telling these s...
On Jan. 19, 1735, less than two years after Gen. Oglethorpe first set his feet on the soil of Georgi...
The death penalty is doomed. Nothing is more certainly engraved in the book of human destiny than th...
Capital punishment involves killing helpless prisoners. It is uncivilized. It is wrong for the same ...
The United States Supreme Court has found death constitutional as a punishment for murder. In Gregg ...
On April 10, 1995, Gov. Zell Miller signed into law Georgia\u27s Death Penalty Habeas Corpus Reform ...
In 1972, in Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court deemed it “incon-testable” that a death sentence is...
Virginia permits imposition of the death penalty for capital murder only after a bifurcated trial in...
Forty years ago, the Supreme Court of the United States deemed constitutional new death penalty laws...
A century ago, Oct. 29, 1890, the man who committed the most horrible and notorious murders in the h...
In the forty year history of the Supreme Court\u27s modern death penalty jurisprudence, two cases — ...
In the second half of the 19th Century, hundreds of murders occurred in Georgia, but only two murder...
The Georgia Supreme Court addressed numerous cases touching on the death penalty in our survey perio...
In Furman v. Georgia (1972), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the capital convictions of Jackson F...
In 1972, in Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court deemed it incontestable that a death sentence is ...
The stories of those who have been executed in the Bahamas are heretofore untold. In telling these s...
On Jan. 19, 1735, less than two years after Gen. Oglethorpe first set his feet on the soil of Georgi...
The death penalty is doomed. Nothing is more certainly engraved in the book of human destiny than th...
Capital punishment involves killing helpless prisoners. It is uncivilized. It is wrong for the same ...
The United States Supreme Court has found death constitutional as a punishment for murder. In Gregg ...
On April 10, 1995, Gov. Zell Miller signed into law Georgia\u27s Death Penalty Habeas Corpus Reform ...
In 1972, in Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court deemed it “incon-testable” that a death sentence is...
Virginia permits imposition of the death penalty for capital murder only after a bifurcated trial in...
Forty years ago, the Supreme Court of the United States deemed constitutional new death penalty laws...
A century ago, Oct. 29, 1890, the man who committed the most horrible and notorious murders in the h...
In the forty year history of the Supreme Court\u27s modern death penalty jurisprudence, two cases — ...
In the second half of the 19th Century, hundreds of murders occurred in Georgia, but only two murder...
The Georgia Supreme Court addressed numerous cases touching on the death penalty in our survey perio...
In Furman v. Georgia (1972), the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the capital convictions of Jackson F...
In 1972, in Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court deemed it incontestable that a death sentence is ...
The stories of those who have been executed in the Bahamas are heretofore untold. In telling these s...