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›

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›

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›

FOREIGN OFFICE WILL NO LONGER EXPLICITLY CAMPAIGN FOR AN END TO USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY WORLDWIDE

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›

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›

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›

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›

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›

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›

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

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›

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›

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›

DEATH SENTENCES SURGE EVEN AS MORE COUNTRIES DROP CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Saudi Arabia is an elected member of the United Nations Human Rights Council... READ MORE›

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›

CONNECTICUT'S TOP COURT BANS DEATH PENALTY IN STATE

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›

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›

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›

'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›

Another death-row inmate, Tommy Arthur, is challenging the new protocol in a different federal court... READ MORE›

PHARMACEUTICAL GIANT PFIZER BLOCKS THE USE OF ITS DRUGS IN EXECUTIONS

The mounting difficulty in obtaining lethal drugs has already caused states to furtively scramble for supplies... READ MORE›

PFIZER BLOCKS THE USE OF ITS DRUGS IN EXECUTIONS

Executing states must now go underground if they want to get hold of medicines for use in lethal injection... READ MORE›

VIRGINIA EXECUTES MAN WHO KILLED HOUSE OF FREAKS SINGER AND HIS FAMILY

Wednesday following a lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va... READ MORE›

ARKANSAS BID TO EXECUTE INMATE DENIED BY U.S. SUPREME COURT

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling came hours after the state had cleared two of the main obstacles to resuming executions... READ MORE›

DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV APOLOGIZES TO BOSTON BOMBING VICTIMS BEFORE GETTING DEATH SENTENCE

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev apologizses to victims and survivors of Boston Marathon bombing before getting death sentence... READ MORE›

ALABAMA INMATE EXECUTED FOR 1994 CONVENIENCE STORE KILLING

Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, was pronounced dead at 11 05 p.m., about 30 minutes after the procedure began at the state prison in southwest Alabama... READ MORE›

SUPREME COURT RULES OKLAHOMA LETHAL INJECTION DRUG DOESN'T VIOLATE CONSTITUTION

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›

POLITICS AND THE DEATH PENALTY: FOR CLINTON AND TRUMP, SAFEST STANCE MAY BE SILENCE

Both of her primary rivals - Vermont senator Bernie Sanders and former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley - opposed capital punishment... READ MORE›

ARKANSAS GOVERNOR SLATES EIGHT EXECUTIONS FOR APRIL BEFORE DEATH DRUGS EXPIRE

The U.S. Supreme Court last week rejected the inmates' request to review a state court ruling that upheld Arkansas' lethal injection law... READ MORE›

COURT: INMATE WHO SURVIVED '09 EXECUTION CAN BE PUT TO DEATH

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›