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CHICAGO – A Cook County judge ordered the immediate release Thursday of a prisoner whose confession had helped free a death row inmate in a 1982 double killing. Alstory Simon's confession in the ...

Time is running out in the fight to stop the execution of a convicted killer. James Broadnax, 37, is scheduled to die by ...

DOVER, Del. (AP) — The Delaware Supreme Court is mulling whether to overturn a judge’s ruling that resulted in an accused killer being set free after spending more than two decades on death row.