An escaped murderer suspected of killing five people while on the run was gunned down by Texas police, bringing an end to a three-week-long manhunt after the fugitive's dramatic escape from a prison bus.
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After more than 43 years back on the books, the number of death sentences issued in the U.S. dropped to its lowest level in years during COVID-ravaged 2020.
Colorado abolished the ultimate penalty and states where the penalty was still the law were increasingly reluctant to use it. Some death penalty states have not executed anyone in more than a decade
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There were just 18 death sentences issued and just 17 men put to death by the newly bloodthirsty federal government and five states, four of them in the South. The stats reflect a six-year trend showing the death penalty is on life-support.