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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

MENTALLY ILL MAN SET TO DIE IN ARKANSAS 'CONVEYOR BELT' EXECUTIONS


Later, after he was put on death row in Arkansas, he was observed to be a loner who lived in almost total isolation... READ MORE

13th April, 2017 3060

BLACK 14-YEAR-OLD BOY EXONERATED 70 YEARS AFTER HE WAS EXECUTED


George Stinney Jr Black 14-year-old boy exonerated 70 years after he was executed... READ MORE

18th December, 2014 1118

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

ARIZONA INVITES DEATH ROW INMATES TO BRING THEIR OWN EXECUTION DRUGS TO SIDESTEP EU BAN


Arizona has devised a new way of sidestepping an EU ban on the supply of lethal injection drugs to US jails... READ MORE

15th February, 2017 496

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

FIRING SQUADS COULD BE MAKING COMEBACK IN US EXECUTIONS


Wyoming's legislation again legalizing firing squads provides the state with a fall back in the event the Supreme Court rules that lethal injections are unconstitutional... READ MORE

26th January, 2015 321

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


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

COURT OKS OHIO DO-OVER OF FAILED LETHAL INJECTION OF ROMELL BROOM


He is the only inmate to survive an execution using lethal injection... READ MORE

2nd August, 2016 218

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

AMERICA IS RUNNING OUT OF LETHAL INJECTION DRUGS BECAUSE OF A EUROPEAN EMBARGO TO END THE DEATH PENALTY


The UK unilaterally restricted the export of death penalty drugs to the United States in 2010 under the direction of the Business Secretary Vince Cable... READ MORE

13th March, 2015 156

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

CALIFORNIA UNVEILS LETHAL INJECTION PLAN AFTER 10-YEAR EXECUTION DELAY


The latter two have never been used in the U.S. as execution drugs, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, which opposes capital punishment... READ MORE

2nd August, 2016 108

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

U.S. JUDGE REJECTS BID FOR NEW TRIAL FOR BOSTON MARATHON BOMBER


Three days later, the Tsarnaevs shot dead Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, 26... READ MORE

15th January, 2016 91

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

UTAH GOVERNOR SIGNS BILL ALLOWING EXECUTIONS BY FIRING SQUAD


Since 1976, there have been only three executions by firing squad in the US, according to the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, DC... READ MORE

24th March, 2015 44

AUSTRALIAN WOMAN NGUYEN THI HUONG, 73, SENTENCED TO DEATH IN VIETNAM ON HEROIN CHARGES


However, the Ho Chi Minh City Police newspaper, controlled by the city's police, said Huong had failed to prove that Helen was real... READ MORE

30th June, 2016 38

U.S. AUTHORITIES CONFISCATE LETHAL-INJECTION DRUGS IMPORTED BY ARIZONA, TEXAS


Texas is the nation's busiest death penalty state, with about 250 death row inmates and 530 executions carried out over the past four decades... READ MORE

24th October, 2015 28

US SUPREME COURT DELAYS EXECUTIONS WHILE IT DECIDES ON LETHAL INJECTIONS


Glossip is one of three death row inmates who brought the case questioning a drug used in lethal injections in Oklahoma... READ MORE

29th January, 2015 27

US SUPREME COURT ORDERS HALT OF TEXAS EXECUTION


This is the second motion to halt executions by the Supreme Court in as many months... READ MORE

5th February, 2015 23

OKLAHOMA ASKS US SUPREME COURT TO DELAY EXECUTIONS


Please read our The US Supreme Court could delay executions in one state as it prepares to decide if lethal injections constitute cruel and unusual punishment... READ MORE

26th January, 2015 16

'I AM SORRY FOR THE LIVES I HAVE TAKEN'


Killed in the bombing were Martin Richard, 8, Chinese exchange student Lingzi Lu, 26, and restaurant manager Krystle Campbell, 29... READ MORE

24th June, 2015 16


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