death-penalty
The Life of Texas Death Row Inmate Teddrick Batiste
Hamilton Nolan · 07/20/16 09:56AMJustice Department Will Also Seek Death Penalty Against Dylann Roof
Gabrielle Bluestone · 05/24/16 04:34PMSupreme Court Throws Out Death Sentence for Black Man Convicted by All-White Jury
Andy Cush · 05/23/16 10:30AMThe U.S. Supreme Court ruled this morning to overturn the death sentence of Timothy Tyrone Foster, a black man who was convicted of murdering a white woman in Georgia in 1987. Prosecutors struck all four black prospective jurors during selection for Foster’s case, leaving him with an entirely white jury deciding his fate.
Grand Jury Says Governor's Lawyer Urged Use of Wrong Execution Drug
Hudson Hongo · 05/19/16 11:47PMVirginian Execution Methods Could Include Compulsory Use of The Electric Chair By Tomorrow
Helen Holmes · 04/10/16 07:40PMAccording to The Guardian, Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe has a rather ghoulish decision on his hands: if he chooses to sign the bill currently on his desk into effect before midnight, Virginia prisons will be authorized to execute the accused with an electric chair rather horrifyingly dubbed “Old Sparky.”
Hamilton Nolan · 04/06/16 10:40AM
Hillary Clinton Wants to Have It Both Ways on the Death Penalty
Brendan O'Connor · 03/13/16 10:25PMThe Death Penalty Is a Terminal Patient
Hamilton Nolan · 12/16/15 08:59AMGeorgia Inmate Executed After Being Denied Appeal for DNA Testing
Melissa Cronin · 11/19/15 11:12PMVeterans and the Death Penalty
Hamilton Nolan · 11/10/15 09:00AMNevada Jury Decides on Death Penalty for Self-Styled "Pimp" in Las Vegas Triple Homicide
Brendan O'Connor · 11/04/15 08:50PMStill Unable to Procure Lethal Injection Drugs, Ohio Delays Executions Until 2017
Brendan O'Connor · 10/19/15 07:35PMThe state of Ohio, which last put someone to death in January 2014, has delayed all of its scheduled executions again, until at least 2017, the Associated Press reports. The prisons department announced that it has run out of supplies of lethal injection drugs and hasn’t been able to acquire new chemicals.
Oklahoma Used the Wrong Drug to Execute a Man in January
Andy Cush · 10/08/15 10:00AMOklahoma’s ability to carry out executions according to its own laws is even more suspect than it originally seemed. According to a report in The Oklahoman, a man named Charles Warner was killed in January using potassium acetate—the same incorrect drug that led to the postponement of Richard Glossip’s death last week.
Oklahoma Halts Three Executions After Receiving Wrong Lethal Injection Drug
Andy Cush · 10/02/15 12:41PMWhen the state of Oklahoma stopped the execution of Richard Glossip on the day he was scheduled to die this week, it wasn’t because he may very well be be an innocent man, but because they’d received the wrong lethal injection drug. Today, the state’s highest criminal court decided to postpone two other pending executions because of the mixup.
Supreme Court Declines to Stay Oklahoma Execution of Richard Glossip, a Man Who Might Be Innocent
Andy Cush · 09/30/15 03:34PMToday, the state of Oklahoma plans to administer a lethal injection to Richard Glossip for his alleged role in the 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese. Glossip has insisted that he was framed for the crime ever since it was perpetrated nearly two decades ago, and there’s compelling evidence that he may be telling the truth.