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.
Read moreAn 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.
Read moreAlabama 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.
Read moreAn imam filed a federal lawsuit against Alabama on Thursday for barring him from accompanying a Muslim death row inmate during his 2019 execution.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreThree Iraqis convicted of “terrorism” were hanged on Monday, a security source said, days after a deadly double suicide attack in a crowded Baghdad marketplace.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read morePresident 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.
Read moreEgypt executed 49 prisoners in just 10 days in October, Human Rights Watch said Thursday, calling for authorities to “immediately halt” carrying out death sentences.
Read moreThe 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 moreA 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreIndia 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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