After a career spent playing convicts and criminals, the opportunity was appealing to Trejo.
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Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
15 Oct. 2026
Aiming to make the race to succeed Tillis a referendum on crime, Republicans have run ads claiming that Democratic nominee Roy Cooper went easy on convicts during his two terms in the governor’s mansion.
More recently, the outgoing governor — who is expected to run for president in 2028 — has mulled commuting all 536 state death row prisoners’ sentences to life without parole.
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Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
22 Oct. 2026
Hubbard was the last remaining American designated as wrongfully detained, although advocates say that label should be applied to other prisoners.
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Dasha Litvinova,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Oct. 2026
Before the arrival of the Sisters of Mary Morning Star, the death row inmates had been plagued by petty infighting.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Oct. 2026
Fewer than half of the 170,000 inmates released from California prisons between 2015 and 2019 found jobs, and many of those jobs were temporary, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.
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Dan Avery,
CNBC,
21 Oct. 2026
The show has also progressed from a solely in-person experience to one with main-stage panels that are streamed live for fans around the world via YouTube — a move born out of the COVID-19 pandemic-era virtual cons that has stuck.
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