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Friday 23 October 2020
63-year-old Charles Rhines was put to death by lethal injection.
Gary Ray Bowles was captured in 1994.
He also shot two of the woman’s friends who were present when he entered her home.
The bid to stop the execution centred on the inmate’s request to inhale nitrogen gas rather than face lethal injection.
It is the state’s first execution in nearly a decade.
Killer-of-two Walter Leroy Moody Jr was given a lethal injection last night at the Alabama prison at Atmore.
Strict new coronavirus measures have come into effect – here’s what they mean for you.
Anthony Shore was put to death for raping, torturing and murdering three girls in the 1980s and 1990s.
The state’s remaining supply of one of the drugs runs out tomorrow.
The prisoner was seen to convulse 20 times before he died.
The executions have been blocked on foot of a constitutional amendment banning “cruel and unusual punishment”.
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.
The zoo operator held a memorial service for the monkeys at a nearby Buddhist temple to appease their souls.
Drugmakers have, by and large, put their drugs off-limits for executions.
But it’s not clear how much of an effect the move will have.
Pablo Vasquez had said that he heard voices telling him to drink the boy’s blood.
John David Battaglia shot his six and nine-year-old daughters dead as their mother listened helplessly on the phone.
Ohio first tried to execute him in 2009.
Wesbrook said in his final statement: “I want to say that I am sorry for the pain that I have caused you people”.
Brandon Astor Jones (72) had been in jail for over 36 years.
Brandon Jones has been imprisoned for murder since 1979. He has declined to request a final meal.
His victim was just 15 years old when she was murdered.
Richard Strong’s daughter has said it’s unfair that she should now be orphaned.
Manuel Garza was sentenced to death for killing a police officer in February 2001 with the officer’s own gun.
However, it has yet to be signed into law.
Lawyers had argued that the execution of Clayton Lockett was “prolonged and agonising”
They injected Clayton Lockett in the flesh instead of the vein and he died of a heart attack 45 minutes later.
Joseph Wood had “been gasping and snorting for more than an hour,” his legal team said.
The origin of execution drugs has been brought into sharp focus after a number of botched killings.
Ohio death row inmate Ronald Post shot and killed a hotel clerk in northern Ohio almost 30 years ago.
Lawyers for 54-year-old Marvin Wilson had argued that he should have been exempt from capital punishment because he had an IQ of 61.
Legal analyst Andrew Cohen argues in The Atlantic that legal argument on lethal injections cannot continue without those involved in the debate seeing exactly what happens in the death chamber.
Minister says she will approach US states which use Danish-made drugs in their lethal injections.
AS THE COUNTRY enters Level 5 restrictions for the next six weeks, we’ll all be finding different ways to occupy our time or take a break from work.
In April and May, many people put their trainers on and went for long walks, jogs or runs. Others took a dip in the sea.
With restrictions now in place, we want to know: Do you plan to exercise more over the next six weeks?
Poll Results:
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Lecturer Maeve O’Rourke analyses the government’s nine main arguments in relation to the Bill.
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