Calling it “an accident waiting to happen,” the man who built Tennessee’s electric chair told Courthouse News that modifications made to the machine may not do an effective job in Thursday night’s planned execution of a double murderer.
Read moreThe U.N. human rights chief is condemning the execution in Iran of a woman convicted of murdering her husband five years ago when she was 17 years old.
Read moreTo ensure Texas can keep executing prisoners, it does not have to reveal the supplier of its lethal injection drug to a group of Arkansas death-row inmates, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Read moreSaudi Arabia says it executed and crucified a man from Myanmar convicted of killing a woman and carrying out other crimes.
Read moreThe last six members of a Japanese doomsday cult who remained on death row were executed Thursday for a series of crimes in the 1990s including a sarin gas attack on Tokyo subways that killed 13 people.
Read moreA black death-row inmate set to die Tuesday night claims that racism led the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to vote against sparing his life, and now a federal judge is considering whether to postpone the execution.
Read moreA divided Texas appeals court reaffirmed Wednesday its denial of an inmate’s petition to get off death row, finding he is not too intellectually disabled to be executed as suggested by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read moreThe Texas Supreme Court declined Friday to hear the state’s appeal of a ruling requiring prison officials to disclose the source of execution drugs.
Read moreThe state of California wants to use unconstitutional rules to hide the most gruesome aspects of inmate executions from the public, three news outlets claim in a new lawsuit.
Read moreHustler publisher and free speech advocate Larry Flynt lost his appeal to unseal court records on Missouri’s use of lethal injection drugs when the Eighth Circuit ruled Tuesday that the government’s interest in carrying out executions outweighs his First Amendment rights.
Read moreA federal judge has scheduled a Monday hearing to discuss what happened during an aborted lethal injection in Alabama where lawyers said the inmate endured two-and-a-half hours of medical staff trying to access his veins before the state halted the execution.
Read moreAn hour before the scheduled execution Thursday night, Texas Governor Greg Abbott commuted the sentence of a man convicted of killing his mother and brother — at the request of the man’s father, who also was shot but survived.
Read moreTexas executed a former Dallas accountant Thursday night who shot his two young daughters to death in 1991 as their mother listened to them scream on the phone.
Read moreThe Sixth Circuit on Thursday rejected two death-row inmates’ efforts to block their executions, finding they did not prove Ohio’s lethal injection drugs cause serious pain and suffering.
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The Arkansas Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked the execution of an inmate whose lawyers argued is delusional, two days before the convicted murderer was set to die by lethal injection.
Read moreZimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe said Wednesday he is in favor of resuming executions after more than a decade in response to rising murder rates.
Read moreA nationwide group of lawyers joined 28 mental health professionals in urging the governor of Arkansas to stop the Nov. 9 execution of convicted killer Jack Greene, saying he suffers from mental illness and delusions.
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