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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.
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.
Associated Press - November 24, 2009 1:24 PM ET OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - An Alameda County jury has decided that a drug dealer convicted of 2 Oakland murders in 2001 should be executed.
CINCINNATI -- A previously blocked execution set for Dec. 8 now can go forward because of a change in Ohio's lethal injection policies, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
The letters arrived in 1985, sent to an eclectic mix of bold faced names: Two U.S. Supreme Court justices, New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, Buffalo Mayor Jimmy "Six Pack" Griffin , U.S. Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, state Comptroller Edward Regan, Attorney General Robert Abrams, and others including an assemblyman who helped restore New York's death penalty for offenders he famously called "animals."
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.
In less than two weeks, convicted killer Kenneth Biros will likely be the first to die under Ohio's new single-dose lethal injection policy. Despite pleas from Biros' attorneys that the method is too new and untested, a three-judge panel from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled Wednesday morning that the new procedure is not unconstitutional. The decision did not disappoint ...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) – Russia's Constitutional Court effectively outlawed the death penalty Thursday, saying a moratorium on capital punishment should remain in force until the nation fully bans executions. Constitutional Court chief Valery Zorkin said Russia must extend the moratorium on executions until it ratifies a European convention banning the death penalty.
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.
CINCINNATI -- An inmate whose execution was put on hold as he argued that Ohios 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. ...
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 [...]
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.
This week, Tijuana’s secretary of public security, Julián Leyzaola Pérez, called for the revival of the death penalty in Mexico for those convicted of killing police officers. Leyzaola said that those who kill police should receive 40- to 60-year sentences.
KUWAIT CITY, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- The government of Saudi Arabia should overturn a death penalty for a man accused of witchcraft and end the use of such vague charges, Human Rights Watch said.
