The Last Face Death Row Inmates See
The Rev. Jeff Hood has made a career of fighting to save men the state wants to kill — and it doesn't matter if they're ...
Tennessee's death row inmates sue to stop lethal injection protocol: 'A torturous death'
“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, ...
Louisiana death row killer Jessie Hoffman becomes state’s first nitrogen gas execution
Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was declared dead shortly after 7 p.m. after he inhaled the lethal gas through a fitted full-faced ...
KFGO5d
Death row inmate loses bid to link U.S. Supreme Court bureaucracy ruling to his case
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (South Dakota Searchlight) – A U.S. Supreme Court case on regulatory rulemaking doesn’t give South Dakota’s only death row inmate a chance to renew and re-litigate the appeals that ...
Death penalty debate intensifies as Tennessee set to resume executions with new drug
Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...
Federal court upholds sentence for longest-serving death row inmate in Kentucky
White and two juvenile accomplices used a crow bar to fatally beat a blind 75-year-old and two other seniors while robbing ...
Another South Carolina death row inmate chooses to die by firing squad 40 days after first execution
Mikal Mahdi, who pleaded guilty to murder for killing a police officer in 2004, is scheduled to be executed April 11.
Judge denies petition to appeal death penalty for only inmate on South Dakota's death row
A federal court judge has denied Briley Wayne Piper's petition to to appeal his death sentence. The man remains on death row.
USA Today13d
Tennessee's death row inmates sue to stop lethal injection protocol: 'A torturous death'
The U.S. Department of Justice, under former U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, halted the use of pentobarbital for federal death row inmates in January after it was unable to determine whethe ...
The Courier-Journal12d
Federal court upholds death sentence for Kentucky's longest-held death row inmate
A man convicted in 1980 for a triple homicide will remain on death row after a federal court rejected his ... Kentucky’s longest-held death row inmate, lost his appeal to the U.S. Court of ...