Prison portraits from retiring AP reporter Mike Graczyk

HOUSTON (AP) — Before every Texas execution, Mike Graczyk has asked to talk to the convict scheduled to die. If the person said yes, he visited death row to interview and took a photo of them. He also attempted to contact the family members of the person killed by the condemned inmate and the lawyers... Read More

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Mike Graczyk

July 30, 2018

Fears in Oklahoma over ruling in tribal sovereignty case

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Patrick Murphy was convicted of killing a fellow Muscogee (Creek) Nation man in 1999 and was sentenced to die. Prosecutors say he mutilated George Jacobs and left him to bleed to death on the side of a country road about 80 miles southeast of Tulsa. In a decision that many believe... Read More

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Patrick Murphy

July 26, 2018

Nevada appealing killer’s twice-delayed execution

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada prison officials appealed Wednesday to the state Supreme Court, seeking to overrule a delay of the state’s first execution in 12 years after a drug company opposed the use of its product. The 64-page filing asks the court to lift what state attorneys call “an unprecedented temporary restraining order” that... Read More

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Scott Raymond Dozier

July 24, 2018

UK silent on US death penalty concerns for alleged jihadis

LONDON (AP) — A furor has erupted over leaked documents showing that British officials are not requiring their U.S. counterparts to provide assurances that two alleged British jihadis linked to the Islamic State group will not be executed if they are eventually put on trial in the United States. The Daily Telegraph said Monday it... Read More

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Execution, Jihadis

July 20, 2018

Ohio executes killer who tried “homosexual panic” defense after 1985 murder

LUCASVILLE, Ohio — An Ohio inmate was executed Wednesday for choking and stabbing to death a man he met in a bar in 1985. The execution of Robert Van Hook by lethal injection was carried out at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. Prison warden Ron Erdos announced the time of death as 10:44 a.m. During... Read More

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Robert Van Hook

July 18, 2018

Texas executes man for 2004 slaying of store owner

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas prisoner was executed Tuesday evening for the fatal shooting of a San Antonio convenience store owner after courts turned down appeals that the state parole board improperly rejected the inmate’s clemency request because he’s black. Christopher Young, 34, never denied the slaying, which was recorded on a store surveillance... Read More

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Christopher Young

July 12, 2018

Nevada execution delayed indefinitely after ruling on drug

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A state trying to execute its first inmate in 12 years using an untested combination of drugs is heading back to planning stages, and a twice-convicted killer who wants to die will return to death row, after a court postponed his lethal injection to allow a drug company to argue that... Read More

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Scott Raymond Dozier

July 11, 2018

8 Alabama inmates ask for execution by nitrogen gas

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A lawsuit challenging Alabama’s lethal injection process took an unexpected turn Tuesday after eight inmate plaintiffs asked to be put to death by the state’s new execution method: inhaling nitrogen gas. The Alabama attorney general’s office and lawyers for inmates submitted a joint motion Tuesday to dismiss the litigation. Lawyers said... Read More

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July 11, 2018

Nevada execution in doubt after drug company sues to stop it

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A twice-convicted killer scheduled to be executed Wednesday night in Nevada by an untried three-drug lethal injection is steadfast in his desire to be put to death, but a final-hour lawsuit by a drug company could halt the execution. Pharmaceutical companies have resisted the use of their drugs in executions for... Read More

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Scott Raymond Dozier

July 10, 2018

India court keeps 3 death sentences in 2012 fatal gang rape

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s highest court on Monday rejected the requests of three men to change their death sentences to imprisonment in the 2012 fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old medical student in New Delhi. The Supreme Court said there were no grounds for changing the men’s sentences. The men were among four sentenced... Read More

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July 9, 2018

A neighbor’s word can bring death sentence in Iraq IS trials

BAGHDAD (AP) — More than a decade ago, Ismail Saleh says, a neighbor wanted to marry one of Saleh’s cousins. Following the custom of their clan in northern Iraq, she was meant to wed Saleh, so the family refused. And thus, he says, a feud was born. Saleh now sits on death row in Baghdad,... Read More

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Death Sentence, Iraq

July 4, 2018

Nevada switches drug to be used in 1st execution since 2006

LAS VEGAS (AP) — One sedative will be substituted for another, and prison officials said Tuesday they plan to use two other drugs never before used in executions in any state for Nevada’s first lethal injection in 12 years. The drugs include a powerful synthetic opioid that has been blamed for overdoses nationwide. A revised... Read More

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Execution, Scott Raymond Dozier

June 21, 2018

The Latest: Rights group: Execution drugs, method need look

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on plans for Nevada’s first execution in 12 years (all times local): 2:30 p.m. An advocate says Nevada’s governor or prisons chief should stop the planned execution next month of a death-row inmate until questions about the process and a never-before-used, three-drug cocktail are answered. American Civil Liberties Union... Read More

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Execution

June 14, 2018

Attorneys seek to spare ex-doctor from death for 4 slayings

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Attorneys for a former doctor convicted of killing four people connected to an Omaha medical school began the effort Wednesday to spare him from the death penalty — even as he refused to help in his own defense. Anthony Garcia appeared disheveled, with a heavy beard and unkempt hair, when he... Read More

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Anthony Garcia

Prison portraits from retiring AP reporter Mike Graczyk

Fears in Oklahoma over ruling in tribal sovereignty case

Nevada appealing killer’s twice-delayed execution

UK silent on US death penalty concerns for alleged jihadis

Ohio executes killer who tried “homosexual panic” defense after 1985 murder

Texas executes man for 2004 slaying of store owner

Nevada execution delayed indefinitely after ruling on drug

8 Alabama inmates ask for execution by nitrogen gas

Nevada execution in doubt after drug company sues to stop it

India court keeps 3 death sentences in 2012 fatal gang rape

A neighbor’s word can bring death sentence in Iraq IS trials

Nevada switches drug to be used in 1st execution since 2006

The Latest: Rights group: Execution drugs, method need look

Attorneys seek to spare ex-doctor from death for 4 slayings

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