Alabama Cancels Execution After Court Requires Pastor
An Alabama inmate on Thursday won a reprieve from a scheduled lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court said the state must allow his personal pastor in the death chamber.
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Alabama Would Be 1st State to Execute an Inmate This Year
Alabama would be the first state to carry out an execution this year if allowed to proceed with plans to put to death a 51-year-old inmate convicted in the shotgun slaying of a police detective’s sister decades ago.
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Imam Sues Alabama for Not Letting Him Join Muslim Inmates in Execution Room
An imam filed a federal lawsuit against Alabama on Thursday for barring him from accompanying a Muslim death row inmate during his 2019 execution.
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China Finance Official Executed in Bribery Case
The former head of a Chinese state-owned asset management company was executed Friday on charges of taking bribes in an unusually severe penalty for a recent corruption case.
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Iraq Hangs Three Convicted of ‘Terrorism’: Security Source
Three Iraqis convicted of “terrorism” were hanged on Monday, a security source said, days after a deadly double suicide attack in a crowded Baghdad marketplace.
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Judge Halts 1st US Execution of Female Inmate in 67 Years
A judge has halted the U.S. government’s first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades, saying a court must first determine whether the Kansas woman who killed an expectant mother, cut the baby from her womb and then tried to pass off the newborn as her own is mentally competent.
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A federal court in Washington vacated an order that had delayed the execution of Lisa Montgomery, who strangled a pregnant woman to death and cut out the eight-month-old fetus. Montgomery’s lawyers say she suffers from brain damage and multiple mental illnesses. The decision reinstates the execution scheduled for Jan. 12.
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New Rule Could Allow Gas, Firing Squads for US Executions
The Justice Department is quietly amending its execution protocols, no longer requiring federal death sentences to be carried out by lethal injection and clearing the way to use other methods like firing squads and poison gas.
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Supreme Court Sanctions Eighth Federal Execution Under Trump
The Trump administration executed the eighth federal inmate this year just before midnight, after a late Thursday ruling from the Supreme Court overturned a federal judge’s temporary reprieve.
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Challenge to Trump’s Lineup of Federal Executions Hits DC Circuit
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is continuing down the line of federal death row prisoners it plans to execute, but attorneys put up a new fight against the effort at the D.C. Circuit on Monday.
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Egypt Kills 49 in ‘Outrageous’ Mass Executions: HRW
Egypt executed 49 prisoners in just 10 days in October, Human Rights Watch said Thursday, calling for authorities to “immediately halt” carrying out death sentences.
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Feds Execute Second Inmate This Week After High Court Clears Way
The U.S. government executed the second federal inmate this week early Thursday morning, carrying out the death sentence for a man whose attorneys claimed he suffered from dementia.
Read moreJudge Postpones Federal Execution of White Supremacist
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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Supreme Court Stays Execution of Texas Death Row Inmate
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 moreIran Says It Will Execute Man Who Spied for US
Tehran 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.
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The 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 Hangs Four for Delhi Bus Gang-Rape
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 moreExecution Stayed Due to Virus
The 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 Executes Elite Soldier Turned Islamist Militant
Egypt 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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