# death-penalty - Wednesday 24 March, 2021
# Capital Punishment
# Capital Punishment
The state had previously had the second highest number of executions in the US.
# death-penalty - Friday 11 December, 2020
# Federal Execution
# Federal Execution
Four more federal executions are set to be carried out before Joe Biden is inaugurated next month.
# death-penalty - Monday 13 July, 2020
# Death Penalty
# Death Penalty
The US government was expected to appeal against the decision in a bid to carry out the first such execution since 2003.
# death-penalty - Thursday 9 July, 2020
# United States
# United States
Billy Joe Wardlow, convicted for murder, was given the lethal injection yesterday evening.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 20 May, 2020
# Death Penalty
# Death Penalty
Walter Barton was convicted of murder at a fifth trial in 2006 but maintained his innocence.
# death-penalty - Sunday 26 April, 2020
# Middle East
# Middle East
The decision follows another ordering judges to end the practice of flogging.
# death-penalty - Monday 16 March, 2020
# Capital Punishment
# Capital Punishment
The court ruled that the former employee of the facility deserved no leniency.
# death-penalty - Thursday 22 August, 2019
# I-95 KILLER
# I-95 KILLER
Gary Ray Bowles left six dead over a six-month killing spree.
# death-penalty - Thursday 25 July, 2019
# Capital Punishment
# Capital Punishment
The executions will be carried out by a single lethal injection.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 12 June, 2019
# Trial
# Trial
Timothy Jones Jr. was convicted of five counts of murder last week.
# death-penalty - Friday 12 April, 2019
# Lethal Injection
# Lethal Injection
The bid to stop the execution centred on the inmate’s request to inhale nitrogen gas rather than face lethal injection.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 3 April, 2019
# Sharia Law
# Sharia Law
The laws will make Brunei the first country in East or Southeast Asia to have a sharia penal code at the national level.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 13 March, 2019
# Death Penalty
# Death Penalty
The west-coast state hasn’t carried out an execution since 2006, but 25 inmates have exhausted all of their appeals.
# death-penalty - Friday 8 February, 2019
# Death Penalty
# Death Penalty
The state had a Christian chaplain present instead.
# death-penalty - Tuesday 15 January, 2019
# Diplomatic Tensions
# Diplomatic Tensions
Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was convicted of drug smuggling.
# death-penalty - Thursday 6 December, 2018
# Tennessee
# Tennessee
Both David Earl Miller and Edmund Zagorski before him chose the electric chair over lethal injection.
# death-penalty - Thursday 15 November, 2018
# Texas
# Texas
Mexico and human rights groups have long maintained that Roberto Ramos was not informed of his legal rights.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 15 August, 2018
# Fentanyl
# Fentanyl
Carey Dean Moore received a lethal concoction containing diazepam, fentanyl and potassium chloride.
# death-penalty - Friday 27 July, 2018
# Death Penalty
# Death Penalty
The two suspected British jihadists were captured by US-backed Syrian forces.
# death-penalty - Friday 22 June, 2018
# Starbucks
# Starbucks
Four people died in the attack at a Starbucks café in 2016.
# death-penalty - Sunday 22 April, 2018
# Widespread Outrage
# Widespread Outrage
Violent crime against women has been on the rise in India despite tough laws enacted in 2013.
# death-penalty - Thursday 12 April, 2018
# Death Penalty
# Death Penalty
Most executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan – in that order.
# death-penalty - Friday 23 February, 2018
# Clemency
# Clemency
His father appealed for his life.
# Death Penalty
# Death Penalty
Eric Scott Branch killed a 21-year-old in 1993.
# death-penalty - Saturday 20 January, 2018
# Tourniquet Killer
# Tourniquet Killer
Anthony Shore was put to death for raping, torturing and murdering three girls in the 1980s and 1990s.
# death-penalty - Monday 2 October, 2017
# Malaysia
# Malaysia
Kim Jong-nam was killed by a toxic nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia last February.
# death-penalty - Friday 25 August, 2017
# Florida
# Florida
Mark Asay took 10 minutes to die.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 5 July, 2017
# Death Penalty
# Death Penalty
William Morva was convicted of killing a police officer and a prison guard.
# death-penalty - Thursday 25 May, 2017
# Death Row
# Death Row
Tommy Arthur was first sentenced to death back in 1983 for a murder he denies committing.
# death-penalty - Sunday 30 April, 2017
# Lauren Patterson
# Lauren Patterson
The death penalty is rarely used in Qatar.
# death-penalty - Friday 28 April, 2017
# Lethal Injection
# Lethal Injection
The prisoner was seen to convulse 20 times before he died.
# death-penalty - Tuesday 25 April, 2017
# Sentenced To Death
# Sentenced To Death
This is the first time in 17 years in the US that a state has executed two people in the space of 24 hours.
# death-penalty - Monday 24 April, 2017
# Controversial Drug
# Controversial Drug
The US state’s stock of a controversial sedative will expire at the end of the month.
# death-penalty - Tuesday 18 April, 2017
# Death Penalty
# Death Penalty
Justices declined an appeal from the state’s attorney general to lift a stay barring the execution of Don Davis.
# death-penalty - Monday 17 April, 2017
# Death Row
# Death Row
A federal judge issued stays for each of the inmates on Saturday.
# death-penalty - Wednesday 29 March, 2017
# Arkansas
# Arkansas
Arkansas has scheduled the executions in order to use its supply of a lethal injection drug before it expires.
# death-penalty - Saturday 25 March, 2017
# Lethal Injection
# Lethal Injection
Arkansas says the unprecedented timetable is necessary because one of the ingredients in the lethal injection will soon expire.
# death-penalty - Sunday 19 March, 2017
# Capital Punishment
# Capital Punishment
Jean-Claude Juncker has made it a red line issue
# death-penalty - Thursday 23 February, 2017
# Texas
# Texas
“Our law punishes people for what they do, not who they are.”
# death-penalty - Wednesday 11 January, 2017
# Death Penalty
# Death Penalty
Some shouted at him, while others offered forgiveness for the mass shooting in South Carolina in 2015.
Some sun with a shower this afternoon
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A blend of sun and clouds
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A little a.m. rain, then a few showers
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