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Judge Stops Terrence Williams Execution
Terrence Williams, who was convicted of first-degree murder, will no longer be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday due to a Philadelphia judge’s decision. His execution has been halted based on evidence that, as a teenager, Williams had been sexually abused by his victim, Amos Norwood.
SCOTUS refuses Muslim inmate’s request for imam instead of Christian chaplain for execution
On Thursday evening at 10:12 pm, Alabama executed death row inmate Domineque Ray by lethal injection, after the Supreme Court denied his request for his imam, a Muslim chaplain, to be present. Ray had argued that Alabama making only Christian chaplain’s available infringed his constitutional rights.
Supreme Court Halts Two Arkansas Executions
The United States Supreme Court has denied the state of Arkansas the right to execute two prisoners out of 8 slated to be put to death this month. This decision was made before the state’s lethal injection drugs expire. These would be the state’s first executions in 12 years, since Eric Nance in 2005.
Mississippi On Capital Punishment: Proposes Firing Squads and Gas Chambers
To protect their practice of utilizing the death penalty, Mississippi lawmakers proposed a bill that would turn to firing squads, gas chambers and electrocution to end the lives of death row inmates.
Eric Holder Calls For Moratorium On Death Penalty
From The Huffington Post: Attorney General Eric Holder called Tuesday for a moratorium on the death penalty pending a Supreme Court decision on the use of lethal injection drugs in Oklahoma. Speaking at a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Holder, noting that he was speaking in a personal capacity and not as a member of the […]
Missouri ties own record for most executions in a year
The state of Missouri tied its own record for the most executions in a year when they put a man who killed a suburban Kansas City gas station attendant in 1994 early Wednesday. Leon Taylor, 56, was pronounced dead at 12:22 a.m. at the state prison in Bonne Terre, minutes after receiving a lethal […]
Innocent North Carolina brothers freed after serving 30 years behind bars
North Carolina’s longest-serving death row inmate and his younger brother walked out as free men on Wednesday after serving 30 years in prison for a crime they did not commit. Henry McCollum, 50, along with 46-year-old Leon Brown were freed from Maury Correctional Institution after DNA evidence showed an 11-year-old girl may have been […]
Update: Man who pinned letter declaring innocence executed
A Texas death row inmate who pinned a letter to a member of Gawker media declaring his innocence has been executed. Ray Jasper, 33, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday. He was convicted fourteen years ago for the murder and robbery of a San Antonio recording studio owner.
Cruel and Unusual? Indeed.
Amnesty International is a non-governmental international organization that often campaigns against human rights abuse and calls for international compliance to standards of ethics. Lethal injection is the standard method of execution in the United States. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8yu6DOaoN0 Amnesty has issued a report stating that the cocktail of drugs used in lethal injections can cause excruciating pain […]
Fundamentally Flawed!!!
Romell Broom, 53 year old death row inmate, began to help the executioners do their job. He scuffled to put pressure on the left side of his body while he slid the rubber tubing up his left arm. They attempted to stick him with a needle, it didn’t hold. Romell continued by moving his arm […]
Death row inmate’s life spared on eve of execution
A Missouri death row inmate’s life has been spared just hours before he was set to be executed. The U.S. Supreme Court granted a temporary stay of execution for Missouri death row inmate Herbert Smulls on Tuesday night.