One of three men convicted in the 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr, one of modern America’s worst hate crimes, has been executed in Texas. Byrd, a black man, was beaten, chained to a truck […]
California Governor Gavin Newsom will announce a moratorium on executions and a temporary reprieve for all 737 inmates on death row in the state. US media report he plans to sign an executive order later […]
Seven members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult which carried out a deadly chemical attack on the Tokyo underground in 1995 have been executed, including cult leader Shoko Asahara. The Sarin attack, Japan’s worst terror […]
Oklahoma plans to use nitrogen gas as its preferred method of execution when it resumes using the death penalty, the first US state to do so. The announcement was made by State Attorney General Mike […]
The state of Arkansas has executed two prisoners on death row after the US Supreme Court rejected their last-minute appeals. Jack Jones and Marcel Williams were both sentenced to death for rapes and murders committed […]
Jack Jones and Marcel Williams received lethal injections on the same gurney Monday night, just about three hours apart. It was the first double execution in the United States since 2000. While Jones, 52, was […]
By ANDREW DeMILLO LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A judge who lay on a cot as though he were a death row inmate on a gurney after issuing an order halting Arkansas’ multiple execution plan was […]
The Arkansas’ Supreme Court has halted two executions hours before they were scheduled to take place on Monday. In a 4-3 decision, Arkansas’ highest court stayed the executions of Don Davis and Bruce Ward, who […]
A judge has blocked Arkansas from using one of three lethal injection drugs the US state planned to use in a series of executions next week. The Supreme Court of Arkansas has also granted an […]
Despite finding that Arkansas’ expedited clemency process was “beyond imperfect,” a federal judge ruled Thursday that most of the eight executions scheduled this month can proceed as planned. U.S. District Court Judge D.P. Marshall did […]
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