ATLANTA (AP) — The life of a Georgia man set to be executed Tuesday for killing an 8-year-old girl should be spared, his lawyer argues, explaining that her client has significant cognitive impairments that likely contri...
Executions
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court on Monday declined to overturn a lower court ruling that found a man set to be executed this week is competent to be put to death.The high court without comment declined to revie...
PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has ruled that an Arizona prisoner convicted in the 1978 killing of a university student is mentally fit to be put to death next week, keeping on track what would be the first execution in the sta...
The execution chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Trump administration is planning on executing five more people before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.STR New / ReutersIn late November, as health officials urged...
A federal judge on Tuesday halted executions for two men scheduled to be killed later this week, both of whom are recovering from the coronavirus. The two men, Corey Johnson and Dustin Higgs, argued that lung damage from...
One of the arguments used in support of the death penalty is that capital punishment serves justice. When a person kills another person, they should receive the same treatment. It is an eye for an eye. This is an easy co...
WASHINGTON (AP) — At least two journalists tested positive for coronavirus after witnessing the Trump administration’s final three federal executions, but the Bureau of Prisons knowingly withheld the diagnoses from oth...
George Hale (left) and Adam Pinsker were tasked with covering federal executions for Indiana Public Media in the final months of the Trump administration. After witnessing 12 executions between them, both men contracted ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Trump administration was nearing the end of an unprecedented string of executions, 70% of death row inmates were sick with COVID-19. Guards were ill. Traveling prisons staff on the execution tea...
AdvertisementAllen Nicklasson has had a temporary reprieve. Scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in Missouri on 23October, the convicted killer was given a stay of execution by the states governor, Jay Nixon, on ...
PHOENIX — As it aims to resume executions after a seven-year hiatus, Arizona has refurbished its gas chamber, where the nation’s last lethal-gas execution was carried out more than two decades ago before the ...
The Associated PressPHOENIX -- As it aims to resume executions after a seven-year hiatus, Arizona has refurbished its gas chamber, where the nation's last lethal-gas execution was carried out more than two decades a...
Gary Mohr, director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and CorrectionAndrew Welsh Huggins/APCOLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s prisons agency is trying to obtain a drug that could reverse the lethal in...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A judge was weighing Friday whether to block Arkansas seven upcoming executions, set to begin next week, as a medical supplier said one of the three drugs the state plans to use to put the prisoners ...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Vigil is retiring from the New Mexico Supreme Court at the end of June after more than eight years at the high court.Vigil wrote the lead majority opinion in 201...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Vigil is retiring from the New Mexico Supreme Court at the end of June after more than eight years at the high court.Vigil wrote the lead majority opinion in 201...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee lawmakers on Monday passed legislation designed to prevent death row inmates with an intellectual disability from being executed.The action sends the bill to Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s...
Efforts to ban applying Kentucky’s death penalty to some people with severe mental illnesses have run into resistance By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated PressMarch 4, 2021, 7:09 PM • 3 min read FRANKFORT, Ky. — Effort...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A convicted Nevada mass murderer is mounting a range of legal challenges to a bid to schedule his execution in early June, including questioning whether the district attorney in Las Vegas really wants t...
Drawn-out executions have caused public ire(Image: AP)What exactly happened here?On Wednesday afternoon in Arizona state prison, death row prisoner Joseph Wood was administered a lethal injection. He survived for 1 hour ...
