Arkansas justices face ethics charges over judge’s case

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A disciplinary panel filed ethics charges Thursday against six Arkansas Supreme Court justices over their decision to prohibit a judge who participated in an anti-death penalty demonstration from handling any execution-related cases. A Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission panel formally filed charges against six of the court’s seven members over... Read More

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September 17, 2018

Death sentence for ex-doctor who killed 4 people in Nebraska

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former doctor was sentenced to death on Friday for the revenge killings of four people connected to a Nebraska medical school, including the 11-year-old son of a physician who helped fire the man from a residency program nearly two decades ago. Anthony Garcia, 45, of Indiana entered the courtroom in... Read More

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Anthony Garcia

September 14, 2018

Ex-doctor faces death or life sentence for revenge killings

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A former doctor found guilty of what prosecutors described as the revenge killing of four people connected to a Nebraska medical school where he once worked is facing life in prison or the death penalty. Anthony Garcia, of Terre Haute, Indiana, was convicted of fatally stabbing 11-year-old Thomas Hunter, son of... Read More

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Anthony Garcia

September 12, 2018

Prisons chief: Supplier error got Nevada its execution drugs

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s prisons chief testified Tuesday that after more than 200 drug companies refused to supply drugs for use in an execution, a supplier’s mistake on a buyers’ list gave the state an opening to obtain a sedative that officials want to use in a twice-postponed lethal injection. Under questioning by drug... Read More

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Nevada

September 11, 2018

Nevada high court says execution doctor’s name stays secret

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The name of the physician picked to attend a state inmate’s execution can remain secret, even from drug makers suing to ban the use of their products in the twice-postponed lethal injection, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled Monday. In a twist, lawyers for three pharmaceutical companies who won the right to... Read More

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Execution, Scott Dozier

September 11, 2018

Unlikely weapon: petanque balls help disarm Paris attacker

PARIS (AP) — They only went out to play a calm game of petanque and enjoy some late summer warmth by a Parisian canal. By the end of the evening, the three friends had neutralized a knife-wielding attacker who had stabbed seven people, with an unlikely weapon: the game’s clanking — and hefty — metal... Read More

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Paris Knife Attack

August 23, 2018

Man in California subway stabbing eligible for death penalty

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors on Wednesday added charges that could qualify a man for the death penalty if he’s convicted of stabbing 18-year-old Nia Wilson to death at a train station in Northern California. Alameda County prosecutors added the special-circumstances enhancement of “lying in wait” to the charges against John Cowell, who didn’t enter... Read More

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John Cowell, Nia Wilson

August 14, 2018

Nebraska executes first inmate using fentanyl

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska carried out its first execution in more than two decades on Tuesday with a drug combination never tried before, including the first use of the powerful opioid fentanyl in a lethal injection. Carey Dean Moore, 60, was pronounced dead at 10:47 a.m. Moore had been sentenced to death for killing... Read More

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Carey Dean Moore, Exectution

August 14, 2018

Nebraska set for execution after about-face on death penalty

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Three years after Nebraska lawmakers voted to abolish capital punishment, the state is preparing to carry out its first execution since 1997 on Tuesday in a bewildering about-face driven largely by the state’s Republican governor. Gov. Pete Ricketts, a wealthy former businessman, helped finance a ballot drive to reinstate capital punishment... Read More

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Carey Dean Moore, Execution

August 10, 2018

Tennessee carries out its 1st execution in nearly a decade

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee carried out the execution Thursday of a man condemned for the 1985 rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl, marking the first time the state has applied the death penalty in nearly a decade. Inmate Billy Ray Irick, 59, received a three-drug injection at a maximum-security prison in Nashville and... Read More

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Billy Ray Irick

August 9, 2018

Nevada death-row inmate: ‘Just get it done’

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada death-row inmate whose execution has been postponed twice said a legal fight over his fate is taking a tortuous toll on him and his family and he just wants his sentence carried out. The state should “just get it done, just do it effectively and stop fighting about it,”... Read More

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Scott Raymond Dozier

August 8, 2018

Lawyers ask US Supreme Court to stay Tennessee execution

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the looming execution of a convicted child killer after the Tennessee Supreme Court and governor decided against a delay. In a filing Tuesday, federal public defender Kelley Henry and attorney Carl Gene Shiles Jr. wrote that Billy Ray Irick should get a... Read More

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Ray Krone

August 7, 2018

Tennessee high court refuses to block looming execution

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Supreme Court has refused to stay Thursday’s scheduled execution of a convicted child killer while the state’s new lethal injection protocol continues to be challenged on appeal. The order brings Tennessee within days of killing Billy Ray Irick with a three-drug mixture, barring some last-minute change. Irick, 59, would... Read More

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Billy Ray Irick

August 7, 2018

Lawyer for Nebraska death row inmate seeks release from case

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An attorney for a death row inmate who’s set to be executed next week is asking the Nebraska Supreme Court to release him from the case. Jeff Pickens of the Nebraska Commission on Public Advocacy argues in a Monday court filing that he has a conflict of interest because his duty... Read More

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Carey Dean Moore

Arkansas justices face ethics charges over judge’s case

Death sentence for ex-doctor who killed 4 people in Nebraska

Ex-doctor faces death or life sentence for revenge killings

Prisons chief: Supplier error got Nevada its execution drugs

Nevada high court says execution doctor’s name stays secret

Unlikely weapon: petanque balls help disarm Paris attacker

Man in California subway stabbing eligible for death penalty

Nebraska executes first inmate using fentanyl

Nebraska set for execution after about-face on death penalty

Tennessee carries out its 1st execution in nearly a decade

Nevada death-row inmate: ‘Just get it done’

Lawyers ask US Supreme Court to stay Tennessee execution

Tennessee high court refuses to block looming execution

Lawyer for Nebraska death row inmate seeks release from case

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