Recent News Headlines : Capital Punishment In The United States

DONALD TRUMP'S DEATH PENALTY CALL FOR NEW YORK TERROR SUSPECT SAYFULLO SAIPOV RAISES FEARS OF TAINTED TRIAL


Donald Trump has called for the suspect in the New York terror attack to be put to death, raising fears the intervention could impact the trial... READ MORE

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DEATH PENALTY SOUGHT AGAINST KILLER CLOWN SUSPECT


She was extradited on Tuesday from Abingdon, Virginia, where she lived with her husband Michael Warren for years... READ MORE

5th October, 2017 1

I CANNOT 'EXECUTE' CONVICTED MURDERERS - TANZANIA'S PRESIDENT DECLARES


Tanzania's Penal Code, Cap 16 stipulates the death penalty for serious offenses like murder and treason... READ MORE

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Trending News Headlines : Capital Punishment In The United States

'I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE IT CRYSTAL CLEAR, I DO NOT REGRET WHAT I DID'


The Justice Department has executed only three inmates in the modern death penalty era, and the last such execution was in 2003... READ MORE

5th January, 2017 49506

OHIO READY TO RESUME EXECUTIONS WITH NEW DRUG COMBINATION


Ohio plans to resume executions next year with a new three-drug combination after a three-year hiatus, state officials said Monday... READ MORE

3rd October, 2016 4249

FLORIDA EXECUTES MURDERER MARK ASAY WITH NEW DRUG


He was the first white man to be executed in Florida for killing a black victim, according to the Death Penalty Information Center... READ MORE

25th August, 2017 4217

MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING THREE MUSLIM STUDENTS COULD FACE DEATH PENALTY


On Monday, Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson Jr said Mr Hicks is death-penalty qualified ... READ MORE

7th April, 2015 923

COURTS GRANT STAYS TO REMAINING SEVEN MEN SET TO DIE IN ARKANSAS EXECUTIONS


The executions had been scheduled to start Monday night... READ MORE

15th April, 2017 915

JW LEDFORD JR LAWYERS WANT FIRING SQUAD, NOT INJECTION


Georgia already has the skilled personnel, weapons and ammunition needed to carry out an execution by firing squad, Ledford's lawyers argued... READ MORE

13th May, 2017 737

JESSICA WONGSO GETS 20 YEARS FOR CYANIDE MURDER


An Australian resident has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of murdering her friend with a cyanide laced coffee... READ MORE

27th October, 2016 567

NEBRASKA POISED TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY, WOULD BE FIRST STATE SINCE 2013


If that vote holds in a veto override, Nebraska would become the first conservative state to repeal the death penalty since 1973... READ MORE

6th January, 2016 386

'BLACK WIDOW' INVESTIGATED AFTER DEATHS OF SEVEN PARTNERS


In April 2012, another black widow killer, 39-year-old Kanae Kijima, was given the death penalty for the murders of three men she met through Internet dating sites... READ MORE

20th November, 2014 370

UTAH PASSES BILL TO ALLOW EXECUTION BY FIRING SQUAD FOR DEATH-ROW PRISONERS


The bill would require Utah to use a firing squad if lethal injection drugs are not on hand 30 days before an execution... READ MORE

10th March, 2015 309

BOSTON BOMB TRIAL SET TO PICK JURY


Mr Tsarnaev faces the possibility of the death penalty if he is convicted of detonating a pair of homemade bombs... READ MORE

5th January, 2015 255


Ohio has postponed all six of its scheduled executions this year until 2016 as it tries to find supplies of drugs to use in lethal injections... READ MORE

2nd August, 2016 252


Bills pushing for backups to lethal injection have been making progress in state legislatures... READ MORE

6th January, 2016 236

MISSOURI EXECUTES MAN WHO LOST PART OF HIS BRAIN 40 YEARS AGO


Cecil Clayton Missouri executes man who lost part of his brain 40 years ago... READ MORE

18th March, 2015 204

FARKHUNDA MURDER: AFGHAN COURT QUASHES DEATH SENTENCES


On the same day in May that the four men were given the death penalty, the judge sentenced eight defendants to 16 years in prison and acquitted 18 others... READ MORE

2nd July, 2015 182

BOTCHED OKLAHOMA LETHAL INJECTION EXECUTION OF CLAYTON LOCKETT DESCRIBED AS A BLOODY MESS


It was a bloody mess, said Anita Trammell, the warden of the Oklahoma state prison where the execution took place on 29 April at 6... READ MORE

15th December, 2014 174


After the Texas parole board rejected Panetti's bid to have his sentence commuted to life, his lawyers on Monday filed a reprieve letter with Gov... READ MORE

4th March, 2016 158

MAN'S RELEASE TWISTS ILL. DEATH PENALTY REFORM NARRATIVE


Alstory Simon's confession to the homicides led to the freeing of death row inmate Anthony Porter in 1999, and spurred the state to abolish the death penalty... READ MORE

30th October, 2014 134

FIRING SQUAD EXECUTIONS ARE ONE STEP CLOSER TO COMING TO WYOMING


The state Senate previously passed the bill, but an amendment was added in the House, requiring another Senate vote... READ MORE

13th February, 2015 132

BALI NINE: ISLAND'S GOVERNOR SAYS EXECUTIONS SHOULD NOT TAKE PLACE THERE


Indonesia is awaiting data to confirm it had a record one million visits from Australians in 2014, the vast majority of them to Bali... READ MORE

25th January, 2015 120

STATE SIGNS THROUGH LAW ALLOWING RETURN OF 'GRUESOME' METHOD OF EXECUTION


We prefer to use our primary method of lethal injection when such a sentence is issued, his spokesman said... READ MORE

24th March, 2015 105

12 FACE DEATH PENALTY OVER 2006 TERROR ATTACKS


An Indian court has convicted 12 people over the bombings of seven Mumbai commuter trains that killed 188 people and wounded 800 others in July 2006... READ MORE

11th September, 2015 81

JAMES HOLMES IS FOUND GUILTY IN 2012 COLORADO MOVIE THEATER SHOOTING


Email Justin Independent.co.uk New York James Holmes was found guilty of first-degree murder on Thursday afternoon for the theater massacre three years ago... READ MORE

16th July, 2015 79

DEATH PENALTY IN THE US: PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR PUTS MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS


Tom Wolf placed a moratorium on capital punishment in the state, pending a study on the issue... READ MORE

13th February, 2015 68

PAKISTAN EXECUTES MAN WHO WAS A JUVENILE WHEN ARRESTED FOR MURDER


Since last december's taliban attack on a school more than 230 people have been executed after pakistan lifted a 2008 moratorium on carrying out death sentences... READ MORE

29th September, 2015 66

SHAREHOLDERS CAN'T FORCE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY TO PROVE DRUGS AREN'T USED FOR EXECUTIONS


Cardinal Health shareholders wanted to be sure that the company's medicines were not used for lethal injections... READ MORE

8th August, 2017 60

AS #BALI9 DUO SIT ON DEATH ROW, US STATES LOOK TO BRING BACK THE FIRING SQUAD


As Bali nine duo wait on death row, US states look to bring back firing squad executions... READ MORE

18th February, 2015 53

AS #BALI9 DUO SIT ON DEATH ROW, US STATES LOOK TO BRING BACK THE FIRING SQUAD


As Bali nine duo wait on death row, US states look to bring back firing squad executions... READ MORE

18th February, 2015 48

KELLY GISSENDANER'S LAST WORDS TO HER CHILDREN RELEASED AFTER GEORGIA EXECUTION IS POSTPONED


The intended final words of a mother-of-three who was due to be killed by lethal injection have been released after her execution was postponed... READ MORE

7th March, 2015 48

TEXAS EXECUTES MEXICAN HIT MAN MANUEL VASQUEZ BY LETHAL INJECTION


Injecting Manuel Vasquez with a dose of pentobarbital leaves Texas with enough of the powerful sedative to carry out only one more execution... READ MORE

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