A federal judge in Indiana temporarily delayed Monday’s scheduled execution of a white supremacist convicted 20 years ago of killing an Arkansas gun dealer and his family. The delay came in response to a request from the murder victims’ family members who fear traveling to witness the execution due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
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The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution of convicted murderer Ruben Gutierrez late Tuesday due to Texas’ ban on clergy accompanying inmates into the execution chamber.
Read moreTehran said Tuesday it will execute an Iranian for spying for the United States and Israel after his conviction was upheld for helping the United States to locate General Qasem Soleimani, whom the U.S. killed a drone strike.
Read moreThe Texas Court of Criminal Appeals delayed the execution of Randall Wayne Mays, who was set to receive lethal injection next week for shooting three sheriff’s deputies, killing two, in a standoff. Mays’ attorneys say he suffers from delusions and is intellectually disabled.
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India executed four men Friday for the gang-rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge nationwide protests and international revulsion.
Read moreThe Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed the execution of John Hummel for 60 days due to the current health crisis caused by COVID-19 and “the enormous resources needed to address that emergency.”
Read moreEgypt on Wednesday executed a former special forces officer turned top Islamist militant, Hisham Ashmawy, for his involvement in several high-profile attacks, the army said.
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Oklahoma officials announced Thursday the state has secured a reliable new source of execution drugs and is resuming lethal injection executions after a five-year halt.
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Louisiana cleans its execution chamber at the state penitentiary daily, but it’s been more than a decade since a condemned prisoner has laid on the chamber’s black-padded gurney to die.
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Ledell Lee was pronounced dead 12 minutes after his April 2017 execution began. But the Arkansas man always maintained his innocence, and two groups now claim DNA evidence could be used to exonerate Lee nearly three years after his death.
Read moreJihadists aligned with the Islamic State group have released a video claiming to show the execution of 11 Christians in restive northeast Nigeria.
Read moreFewer than 30 people were executed in the United States and under 50 new death sentences were imposed for the fifth straight year, part of a continuing decline in capital punishment that saw only a few states carry out executions, a new report issued Tuesday said.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court on Friday prevented the Trump administration from resuming federal prisoner executions next week after an approximately 16-year pause.
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A federal judge in Indiana granted a stay of execution late Thursday to a white supremacist convicted 20 years ago of killing an Arkansas gun dealer and his family, blocking what would have been the first execution carried out by the federal government since 2003.
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The D.C. Circuit on Monday kept in place a federal judge’s order blocking the Trump administration from carrying out the first federal executions in nearly two decades.
Read moreA Texas appeals court on Friday stayed the execution of a black man who has been on death row for more than 20 years for the rape and murder of a white woman. His attorneys say it is “scientifically impossible” to pin the killing on him based on new evidence.
Read moreSri Lanka’s top court on Tuesday effectively blocked a plan by the president to bring back hangings for the first time since 1976 before he leaves office next month.
Read moreDespite calls for the use of DNA testing in a two-decades-old murder case, Georgia officials announced on Wednesday that death row inmate Ray Jefferson Cromartie will be executed near the end of the month.
Read moreTexas’ highest criminal court stayed the execution of a Jewish man Friday, remanding his case for vetting of his claims the trial judge called him anti-Semitic slurs.
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