# execution - Wednesday 13 January, 2021
# Lisa Montgomery
# Lisa Montgomery
Lisa Montgomery killed a pregnant 23-year-old woman in 2004.
# execution - 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.
# execution - Friday 21 February, 2020
# Nicholas Sutton
# Nicholas Sutton
Nicholas Sutton’s defenders said he had been a model prisoner for more than 30 years.
# execution - Thursday 26 December, 2019
# Fukuoka
# Fukuoka
Wei Wei was executed in a detention centre in Fukuoka.
# execution - Saturday 16 November, 2019
# Rodney Reed
# Rodney Reed
Rodney Reed (51) was sentenced to death for the 1996 killing of 19-year-old Stacey Stites.
# execution - Tuesday 5 November, 2019
# Charles Rhines
# Charles Rhines
63-year-old Charles Rhines was put to death by lethal injection.
# execution - Wednesday 11 September, 2019
# Mark Soliz
# Mark Soliz
In his last words, Mark Soliz apologised “for the grief and the pain that I caused”.
# execution - Friday 23 August, 2019
# Gary Ray Bowles
# Gary Ray Bowles
Gary Ray Bowles was captured in 1994.
# execution - Thursday 22 August, 2019
# I-95 KILLER
# I-95 KILLER
Gary Ray Bowles left six dead over a six-month killing spree.
# execution - 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.
# execution - Thursday 6 December, 2018
# Tennessee
# Tennessee
Both David Earl Miller and Edmund Zagorski before him chose the electric chair over lethal injection.
# execution - Friday 10 August, 2018
# Lethal Injection
# Lethal Injection
It is the state’s first execution in nearly a decade.
# execution - Friday 6 July, 2018
# Aum Shinrikyo
# Aum Shinrikyo
The sarin attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 killed 13 people and injured thousands more.
# execution - Thursday 28 June, 2018
# Danny Bible
# Danny Bible
Danny Bible had murdered at least four people over a span of two decades.
# execution - Thursday 12 April, 2018
# Death Penalty
# Death Penalty
Most executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan – in that order.
# execution - Friday 23 February, 2018
# Death Penalty
# Death Penalty
Eric Scott Branch killed a 21-year-old in 1993.
# execution - Thursday 19 October, 2017
# Other Victims
# Other Victims
Authorities believe Anthony Shore would have left a note to try to exonerate another death row inmate of murder.
# execution - Friday 25 August, 2017
# Florida
# Florida
Mark Asay took 10 minutes to die.
# execution - Friday 28 July, 2017
# Credible Source
# Credible Source
A last minute appeal claimed that TaiChin Preyor’s trial lawyer had insufficient familiarity with Texan law in order to defend him adequately.
# execution - Wednesday 5 July, 2017
# Death Penalty
# Death Penalty
William Morva was convicted of killing a police officer and a prison guard.
# execution - Friday 26 May, 2017
# Capital Punishment
# Capital Punishment
Arthur, who became known as the Houdini of death row, managed to evade his final sentence seven times.
# execution - Saturday 29 April, 2017
# Executions
# Executions
The state’s remaining supply of one of the drugs runs out tomorrow.
# execution - Saturday 15 April, 2017
# Cruel And Unusual
# Cruel And Unusual
The executions have been blocked on foot of a constitutional amendment banning “cruel and unusual punishment”.
# execution - Monday 9 January, 2017
# Death Penalty
# Death Penalty
Drugmakers have, by and large, put their drugs off-limits for executions.
# execution - Saturday 31 December, 2016
# Getting Rid Of The Gallows
# Getting Rid Of The Gallows
The death penalty wasn’t abolished in Ireland until 1990.
# execution - Tuesday 20 December, 2016
# Defected
# Defected
Since he defected, state media has accused him of embezzlement, rape and spying.
# execution - Tuesday 18 October, 2016
# Riyadh
# Riyadh
Such action against a member of the royal family is extremely rare in the middle eastern state.
# execution - Thursday 6 October, 2016
# Barney Fuller
# Barney Fuller
He was the 143rd death row inmate to “volunteer” for execution since 1977.
# execution - Saturday 27 August, 2016
# Terrorism
# Terrorism
One of the boys is identified as being British.
# execution - Saturday 20 August, 2016
# Stay
# Stay
Jeffrey Woods is said to be severely mentally disabled and have an IQ of a child.
# execution - Sunday 7 August, 2016
# Iran Nuclear Programme
# Iran Nuclear Programme
Shahram Amiri disappeared in Saudi Arabia in June 2009 and resurfaced a year later in the United States.
# execution - Wednesday 3 August, 2016
# Patriot
# Patriot
A commemoration was held for Casement this morning in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
# execution - Saturday 14 May, 2016
# Lethal Injection
# Lethal Injection
But it’s not clear how much of an effect the move will have.
# execution - Sunday 24 April, 2016
# Pike County
# Pike County
Audio of a 911 call has been released by investigators.
# execution - Tuesday 12 April, 2016
# Death Penalty
# Death Penalty
47-year-old Kenneth Fults pleaded guilty in 1997 to killing his neighbour.
# execution - Wednesday 30 March, 2016
# Texas
# Texas
John David Battaglia shot his six and nine-year-old daughters dead as their mother listened helplessly on the phone.
# execution - Wednesday 16 March, 2016
# Was It For This
From The Daily Edge
# Was It For This
The execution of 1916 leader James Connolly… in cake form.
# execution - Thursday 10 March, 2016
# Your Say
# Your Say
A man who murdered five people has been executed in Texas – do you agree with the death penalty?
# execution - Wednesday 10 February, 2016
# Execution
# Execution
Reports suggest that the North Korean army’s chief of staff Ri Yong-Gil was executed earlier this month.
# execution - Monday 1 February, 2016
# Lethal Injection
# Lethal Injection
Brandon Jones has been imprisoned for murder since 1979. He has declined to request a final meal.
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