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The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one — as his home state of Ohio has proposed — as long as the drug works efficiently.
New York juries areoften loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists.
CENTRALIA, Ill. —The trial of an autistic Southern Illinois man in the rape and stabbing death of a Centralia first-grade teacher can go forward now that the prosecution has agreed state law does not allow the death penalty.Neil Barrall, 29, of Centralia, faces two counts of first-degree murder for the October 2007 slaying of Rita Michelle Caveletto. Prosecutors in Marion County allege Barrall ...
A filing U.S. District Court shows Ohio will reduce from three to one the number of drugs used in lethal injection executions, with a muscle injection available as a back up.
An Alameda County jury has decided that a drug dealer convicted of two Oakland murders in 2001 should be executed.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An attorney for a condemned killer says Ohio's new lethal injection plan is so untested that it would amount to human experimentation if used for the first time next month.
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - A judge has sentenced a California man to death for murdering a girlfriend who refused to help him dispose of another girlfriend's body.
The District Attorney's Office will not seek the death penalty against former Sacramento County sheriff's deputy Chu Vue in his murder trial, a prosecutor said in court today.
Justice Ministry spokeswoman Katharina Jahntz on Saturday confirmed a report in Der Spiegel that a German observer would attend the trial to ensure that no evidence provided by Germany would be used to apply the death penalty.
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Russia’s Constitutional Court extended a moratorium on capital punishment, ruling that the ban introduced in 1999 had set in motion an “irreversible process” toward the abolition of capital punishment in Russia.
COLUMBUS -- The state's decision to replace a three-drug lethal injection with a powerful dose of one anesthetic is raising the possibility of what might have seemed unthinkable not so long ago: a truce in the long-running legal challenges to death penalty injection across the country.
A flurry of executions has raised concern that the government is using judicially sanctioned killing to quell pockets of unrest around the nation.
As an execution team tried to find a vein during an effort at lethal injection, prison staff members sought help from a doctor — a move generally discouraged by ethical and professional medical rules.
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Russia’s Constitutional Court extended a moratorium on capital punishment, ruling that the ban introduced in 1999 had set in motion an “irreversible process” leading toward the abolition of capital punishment in Russia.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Prosecutors have decided not to seek the death penalty for a former Sacramento County sheriff's deputy accuse of murdering a state correctional officer.
Confessed cop killer John "Jordan" Lewis was sentence to death by lethal injection for murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Chuck Cassidy.
