The Justice Department has executed only three inmates in the modern death penalty era, and the last such execution was in 2003... READ MORE›
Ohio plans to resume executions next year with a new three-drug combination after a three-year hiatus, state officials said Monday... READ MORE›
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›
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›
George Stinney Jr Black 14-year-old boy exonerated 70 years after he was executed... READ MORE›
The executions had been scheduled to start Monday night... 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›
Georgia already has the skilled personnel, weapons and ammunition needed to carry out an execution by firing squad, Ledford's lawyers argued... READ MORE›
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 has devised a new way of sidestepping an EU ban on the supply of lethal injection drugs to US jails... 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›
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›
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›
Mr Tsarnaev faces the possibility of the death penalty if he is convicted of detonating a pair of homemade bombs... 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›
He is the only inmate to survive an execution using lethal injection... READ MORE›
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›
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›
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›
The state Senate previously passed the bill, but an amendment was added in the House, requiring another Senate vote... 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›
We prefer to use our primary method of lethal injection when such a sentence is issued, his spokesman said... READ MORE›
Saudi Arabia is an elected member of the United Nations Human Rights Council... READ MORE›
Three days later, the Tsarnaevs shot dead Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, 26... READ MORE›
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›
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›
Tom Wolf placed a moratorium on capital punishment in the state, pending a study on the issue... READ MORE›
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›
Cardinal Health shareholders wanted to be sure that the company's medicines were not used for lethal injections... READ MORE›
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