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COLUMBUS, Ohio — 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.
Federal court papers say that as an Ohio execution team tried to find a vein during an unsuccessful lethal injection attempt, prison staff asked a doctor for help.
He didn't pull the trigger and he used to wear the uniform of a deputy sheriff, and that's probably why prosecutors announced Friday they will not pursue the death penalty against Chu Vue, according to a criminal law expert.
Executions in Kentucky may now be on hold after a state Supreme Court ruling about the way the state instituted lethal injection. The court says proper procedure wasn't followed.
A Long Beach Superior Court judge ordered death by lethal injection Tuesday for a killer twice convicted for the slashing deaths of two local women. RELATED LINKS: » BLOG: Keep up to date with South Bay crime and court news » BLOG: Track South Bay court cases » South Bay crime stats
New York juries areoften loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists.
The Florida Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for the ringleader of a mass killing over an Xbox video game system.
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.
BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU COLUMBUS - Convicted murderer Vernon L. Smith will get a chance next week to make his pitch to Gov. Ted Strickland to spare him from execution on Ohio's lethal injection gurney. The Ohio Parole Board will preside over a clemency hearing next Thursday and make a recommendation to the governor within a week. Attorneys representing Smith and Lucas County, as well as the ...
An Alameda County jury has decided that a drug dealer convicted of two Oakland murders in 2001 should be executed.
CINCINNATI — An inmate whose execution was put on hold as he argued that Ohio's method of lethal injection was unconstitutional can die as scheduled next month, now that the state has instituted a different method, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. Kenneth Biros would be the first inmate executed under the state's change from a three-drug intravenous lethal injection to a one-drug IV ...
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.
