Denmark to lobby US states over use of drugs for death penalty
Minister says she will approach US states which use Danish-made drugs in their lethal injections.
View ArticleColumn: A view to a kill – Why lawyers and judges should witness executions
Legal analyst Andrew Cohen argues in The Atlantic that legal argument on lethal injections cannot continue without those involved in the debate seeing exactly what happens in the death chamber.
View ArticleTexas executes convicted killer despite claims of low IQ
Lawyers for 54-year-old Marvin Wilson had argued that he should have been exempt from capital punishment because he had an IQ of 61.
View ArticleMan who weighs over 34 stone says he's too obese to be executed
Ohio death row inmate Ronald Post shot and killed a hotel clerk in northern Ohio almost 30 years ago.
View ArticleNews organisations take Missouri to court over lethal injection policy
The origin of execution drugs has been brought into sharp focus after a number of botched killings.
View ArticleConvicted murderer takes two hours to die in botched execution
Joseph Wood had “been gasping and snorting for more than an hour,” his legal team said.
View ArticleExecutioners in Oklahoma's botched execution couldn't inject the needle...
They injected Clayton Lockett in the flesh instead of the vein and he died of a heart attack 45 minutes later.
View ArticleSlow botched execution of Oklahoma murderer ruled constitutional by US court
Lawyers had argued that the execution of Clayton Lockett was “prolonged and agonising”
View ArticleUtah politicians vote to bring back firing squads
However, it has yet to be signed into law.
View ArticleTexas executes sixth inmate this year after restocking lethal injection drug
Manuel Garza was sentenced to death for killing a police officer in February 2001 with the officer’s own gun.
View Article"He can rot in hell" - Man who killed girlfriend and her two-year-old with a...
Richard Strong’s daughter has said it’s unfair that she should now be orphaned.
View ArticleMan executed for raping and killing teenage girl 26 years ago
His victim was just 15 years old when she was murdered.
View Article72-year-old man on death row in the US to be executed tomorrow
Brandon Jones has been imprisoned for murder since 1979. He has declined to request a final meal.
View ArticleGeorgia has just executed its oldest death row inmate
Brandon Astor Jones (72) had been in jail for over 36 years.
View ArticleMan who shot dead five people in 1997 rampage is executed
Wesbrook said in his final statement: “I want to say that I am sorry for the pain that I have caused you people”.
View ArticleConvicted murderer Romell Broom survived one execution but he now faces a second
Ohio first tried to execute him in 2009.
View ArticleMan due to be executed for murdering his two young daughters
John David Battaglia shot his six and nine-year-old daughters dead as their mother listened helplessly on the phone.
View ArticleMan who killed and drank the blood of a 12-year-old executed in Texas
Pablo Vasquez had said that he heard voices telling him to drink the boy’s blood.
View ArticlePfizer blocks its drugs from use in US executions
But it’s not clear how much of an effect the move will have.
View ArticleOhio obtains hundreds of vials of lethal injection drugs so executions can...
Drugmakers have, by and large, put their drugs off-limits for executions.
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