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›

JAMES HOLMES SPARED DEATH PENALTY FOR US CINEMA KILLINGS

Profile Aurora gunman James Holmes In July, Holmes was convicted on 165 counts of murder, attempted murder and an explosives charge over the shootings in Aurora, Colorado... 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›

INTELLECTUALLY-DISABLED AUSTRALIAN COULD FACE DEATH PENALTY IN CHINA

In all, as many as a dozen Australians have been detained in Guangzhou in the past year or so on similar drug charges which could attract the death penalty... 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›

'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›

ARKANSAS SEEKS WITNESSES FOR EIGHT UPCOMING EXECUTIONS

A state law requires that at least six people witness an execution to ensure that the state's death penalty laws are properly followed... READ MORE›

LAWYERS FILE EMERGENCY MOTION TO STOP EXECUTION OF MENTALLY ILL TEXAS INMATE

Panetti has suffered from mental illness for more than three decades, having begun to show signs of paranoia as early as 1978... 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›

FRENCHMAN SERGE ATLAOUI LOSES APPEAL AGAINST EXECUTION IN INDONESIA

Lawyers for Chan and Sukumaran had lodged similar legal challenges in the Administrative Court, which had been rejected on the same grounds... 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›

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›

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›

COMMENT REUNITED BUT NO MENTION OF THE BALI 9

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›

AUSTRALIAN JOCKEY ANTHONY BANNISTER TO FACE DEATH PENALTY IN CHINA

Australian jockey Anthony Bannister, facing the death penalty, will learn his fate on Thursday... 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. STATE OF GEORGIA EXECUTES ONLY WOMAN ON ITS DEATH ROW

Kelly Renee Gissendaner was pronounced dead by injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson... 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›

'ART BECAME HIS RELIGION': SUKUMARAN EXHIBITION OPENS IN SYDNEY

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›

AMERICANS DIVIDED OVER DEATH FOR BOSTON BOMBER DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV, POLL FINDS

Forty-seven percent of those polled want the death penalty for the Boston marathon bomber, while 42 percent would rather he spend life in prison... READ MORE›