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›
Amnesty International has raised serious concerns about the fairness of her trial and has called for her release... READ MORE›
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCO has alarmed campaigners after dropping explicit references to abolishing the death penalty from its global human right work... READ MORE›
They instead argue Mr Holmes suffers from severe mental illness... READ MORE›
Oscar Ray Bolin, 53, was the first inmate executed in 2016... READ MORE›
A three-judge panel of the appeals court said it agreed with Milke's argument that a retrial would amount to double jeopardy... READ MORE›
Asia Bibi was found guilty of insulting the prophet Muhammad four years ago after incident in June 2009... READ MORE›
If that vote holds in a veto override, Nebraska would become the first conservative state to repeal the death penalty since 1973... READ MORE›
Panetti has suffered from mental illness for more than three decades, having begun to show signs of paranoia as early as 1978... READ MORE›
James Holmes' victims' families angry as Colorado theatre shooter is spared death penalty over 12 murders... READ MORE›
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›
Saudi Arabia is an elected member of the United Nations Human Rights Council... READ MORE›
Lawyers for Chan and Sukumaran had lodged similar legal challenges in the Administrative Court, which had been rejected on the same grounds... READ MORE›
In addition to state murder charges, Roof faces 33 federal hate crime and weapons charges that also could result in a death sentence... READ MORE›
Tom Wolf placed a moratorium on capital punishment in the state, pending a study on the issue... READ MORE›
Connecticut's top court on Thursday ruled that the state could no longer impose the death penalty calling it unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment... READ MORE›
All were committed to stopping Indonesia's use of the death penalty and perhaps none more so than Australia, Indonesia's closest western neighbour... READ MORE›
Mexico's Foreign Relations Department ruled Friday that the extradition of convicted drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman to the United States can go forward... READ MORE›
Kelly Renee Gissendaner was pronounced dead by injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson... READ MORE›
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›
The works were painted while Mr Sukumaran was on death row in Bali's Kerobokan jail and during his final incarceration on Nusa Kambangan Island... READ MORE›
Florida Execution of Jerry Correll Put Off Until Supreme Court Rules... READ MORE›
Oklahoma in 1977 then became the first state to adopt lethal injection as a means of execution, according to the Death Penalty Information Centre... READ MORE›
Rick Scott plans to sign a bill to overhaul that state's death penalty system after the Supreme Court struck it down, The Associated Press reported... READ MORE›
On Thursday unless the US Supreme Court steps in Alfredo Prieto will become the first Virginia inmate to be executed in nearly three years... READ MORE›
Both of her primary rivals - Vermont senator Bernie Sanders and former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley - opposed capital punishment... READ MORE›
Lawyers for Chan and Sukumaran had lodged similar legal challenges in the Administrative Court, which had been rejected on the same grounds... READ MORE›
If the state cannot explain why the Broom execution went wrong, then the state cannot guarantee that the outcome will be different next time, French said... READ MORE›
Arizona halted executions after the July 2014 lethal injection of convicted killer Joseph Rudolph Wood, who took nearly two hours to die... READ MORE›
Breaking arkansas executions state kills two death row inmates in one night... READ MORE›
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