# lethal-injection - Friday 10 August, 2018
It is the state’s first execution in nearly a decade.
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# lethal-injection - Friday 20 April, 2018
Killer-of-two Walter Leroy Moody Jr was given a lethal injection last night at the Alabama prison at Atmore.
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# lethal-injection - Saturday 20 January, 2018
Anthony Shore was put to death for raping, torturing and murdering three girls in the 1980s and 1990s.
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# lethal-injection - Saturday 29 April, 2017
The state’s remaining supply of one of the drugs runs out tomorrow.
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# lethal-injection - Friday 28 April, 2017
The prisoner was seen to convulse 20 times before he died.
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# lethal-injection - Saturday 15 April, 2017
The executions have been blocked on foot of a constitutional amendment banning “cruel and unusual punishment”.
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# lethal-injection - Wednesday 29 March, 2017
Arkansas has scheduled the executions in order to use its supply of a lethal injection drug before it expires.
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# lethal-injection - Saturday 25 March, 2017
Arkansas says the unprecedented timetable is necessary because one of the ingredients in the lethal injection will soon expire.
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# lethal-injection - Tuesday 21 February, 2017
The zoo operator held a memorial service for the monkeys at a nearby Buddhist temple to appease their souls.
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# lethal-injection - Monday 9 January, 2017
Drugmakers have, by and large, put their drugs off-limits for executions.
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# lethal-injection - Saturday 14 May, 2016
But it’s not clear how much of an effect the move will have.
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# lethal-injection - Thursday 7 April, 2016
Pablo Vasquez had said that he heard voices telling him to drink the boy’s blood.
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# lethal-injection - Wednesday 30 March, 2016
John David Battaglia shot his six and nine-year-old daughters dead as their mother listened helplessly on the phone.
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# lethal-injection - Wednesday 16 March, 2016
Ohio first tried to execute him in 2009.
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# lethal-injection - Thursday 10 March, 2016
Wesbrook said in his final statement: “I want to say that I am sorry for the pain that I have caused you people”.
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# lethal-injection - Wednesday 3 February, 2016
Brandon Astor Jones (72) had been in jail for over 36 years.
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# lethal-injection - Monday 1 February, 2016
Brandon Jones has been imprisoned for murder since 1979. He has declined to request a final meal.
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# lethal-injection - Wednesday 2 September, 2015
His victim was just 15 years old when she was murdered.
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# lethal-injection - Wednesday 10 June, 2015
Richard Strong’s daughter has said it’s unfair that she should now be orphaned.
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# lethal-injection - Thursday 16 April, 2015
Manuel Garza was sentenced to death for killing a police officer in February 2001 with the officer’s own gun.
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# lethal-injection - Wednesday 11 March, 2015
However, it has yet to be signed into law.
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# lethal-injection - Tuesday 23 December, 2014
Lawyers had argued that the execution of Clayton Lockett was “prolonged and agonising”
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# lethal-injection - Thursday 4 September, 2014
They injected Clayton Lockett in the flesh instead of the vein and he died of a heart attack 45 minutes later.
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# lethal-injection - Thursday 24 July, 2014
Joseph Wood had “been gasping and snorting for more than an hour,” his legal team said.
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# lethal-injection - Thursday 15 May, 2014
The origin of execution drugs has been brought into sharp focus after a number of botched killings.
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# lethal-injection - Monday 17 September, 2012
Ohio death row inmate Ronald Post shot and killed a hotel clerk in northern Ohio almost 30 years ago.
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# lethal-injection - Wednesday 8 August, 2012
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.
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# lethal-injection - Wednesday 27 July, 2011
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.
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# lethal-injection - Thursday 14 April, 2011
Minister says she will approach US states which use Danish-made drugs in their lethal injections.
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