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Wednesday 21 October 2020
The US government was expected to appeal against the decision in a bid to carry out the first such execution since 2003.
Billy Joe Wardlow, convicted for murder, was given the lethal injection yesterday evening.
Walter Barton was convicted of murder at a fifth trial in 2006 but maintained his innocence.
The decision follows another ordering judges to end the practice of flogging.
The court ruled that the former employee of the facility deserved no leniency.
Gary Ray Bowles left six dead over a six-month killing spree.
Strict new coronavirus measures are coming into effect – here’s what they mean for you.
The executions will be carried out by a single lethal injection.
Timothy Jones Jr. was convicted of five counts of murder last week.
The bid to stop the execution centred on the inmate’s request to inhale nitrogen gas rather than face lethal injection.
The laws will make Brunei the first country in East or Southeast Asia to have a sharia penal code at the national level.
The west-coast state hasn’t carried out an execution since 2006, but 25 inmates have exhausted all of their appeals.
The state had a Christian chaplain present instead.
Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was convicted of drug smuggling.
Both David Earl Miller and Edmund Zagorski before him chose the electric chair over lethal injection.
Mexico and human rights groups have long maintained that Roberto Ramos was not informed of his legal rights.
Carey Dean Moore received a lethal concoction containing diazepam, fentanyl and potassium chloride.
The two suspected British jihadists were captured by US-backed Syrian forces.
Four people died in the attack at a Starbucks café in 2016.
Violent crime against women has been on the rise in India despite tough laws enacted in 2013.
Most executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan – in that order.
His father appealed for his life.
Eric Scott Branch killed a 21-year-old in 1993.
Anthony Shore was put to death for raping, torturing and murdering three girls in the 1980s and 1990s.
Kim Jong-nam was killed by a toxic nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia last February.
Mark Asay took 10 minutes to die.
William Morva was convicted of killing a police officer and a prison guard.
Tommy Arthur was first sentenced to death back in 1983 for a murder he denies committing.
The death penalty is rarely used in Qatar.
The prisoner was seen to convulse 20 times before he died.
This is the first time in 17 years in the US that a state has executed two people in the space of 24 hours.
The US state’s stock of a controversial sedative will expire at the end of the month.
Justices declined an appeal from the state’s attorney general to lift a stay barring the execution of Don Davis.
A federal judge issued stays for each of the inmates on Saturday.
Arkansas has scheduled the executions in order to use its supply of a lethal injection drug before it expires.
Arkansas says the unprecedented timetable is necessary because one of the ingredients in the lethal injection will soon expire.
Jean-Claude Juncker has made it a red line issue
“Our law punishes people for what they do, not who they are.”
Some shouted at him, while others offered forgiveness for the mass shooting in South Carolina in 2015.
The US Justice Department said he is the first person to get the death penalty for federal hate crimes.
Drugmakers have, by and large, put their drugs off-limits for executions.
WITH LEVEL 5 restrictions coming into effect at midnight until 1 December, many businesses will be forced to close for the next six weeks.
Of course, many Irish businesses have an online presence and in the run-up to Christmas will rely heavily on support here at home.
As the festive season approaches we want to know: Will you make an extra effort to ‘buy irish’ this Christmas?
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Lecturer Maeve O’Rourke analyses the government’s nine main arguments in relation to the Bill.
This week, a home cook and recent sea swimming convert talks us through her week.
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