A man who shot and killed his two daughters in 2001 was executed in Texas on Thursday evening. John Battaglia, 62, called the girls’ mother before murdering his six and nine-year-old daughters in his Dallas […]
A white supremacist convicted of racially motivated murders three decades ago in Florida has been executed by lethal injection. Mark Asay is the first white man in state history to be executed for killing a […]
By Tom Powell UPDATE A man known as the “Houdini” of death row for avoiding seven execution dates through legal challenges has finally been put to death for a 1982 murder. Tommy Arthur, 75, was […]
Tommy Arthur has had his execution postponed seven times since 2001, so many delays that victims’ rights advocates derisively call him the “Houdini” of death row. He says he is innocent and is fighting for […]
The International Court of Justice has ordered Pakistan to halt the execution of a former Indian naval officer pending a final decision in the proceedings. India took Pakistan to the court over the death sentence […]
Gov. John Kasich has put Ohio executions on hold until May, citing a legal challenge to the state’s three-drug lethal injection protocol. The governor’s office released a statement saying it had postponed the execution dates […]
Arkansas executed its first inmate in over 11 years on Thursday after a protracted legal battle that questioned aspects of the use of the death penalty in the United States. Ledell Lee, 51, was pronounced […]
Joseph Wood was supposed to die about 10 minutes after his jailers released a combination of midazolam and hydromorphone into his bloodstream. Instead, for nearly two hours, the death row inmate snorted and gasped, breathing like […]
Ronald Phillips doesn’t like needles. Never has, he even told a panel determining whether he would live or die. Not that most people care what the 43-year-old Ohio child killer thinks. In 1993, Phillips raped […]
ATMORE, Ala. — A man who killed an Alabama convenience store clerk more than two decades ago was put to death Thursday night, an execution that required two consciousness tests as the inmate heaved and […]
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