News media sue over California’s new execution rules

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Times and other news media organizations sued over California’s new execution rules Wednesday, saying they would bar journalists from fully reporting on the lethal injection procedure. The lawsuit is the latest challenge as the state seeks to resume executions for the first time since 2006. The execution chamber... Read More

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March 28, 2018

The Latest: Attorney won’t contest lethal injection ruling

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the effort to resume executions in California (all times local): 5:15 p.m. An attorney for a condemned inmate in California says he does not plan to contest a judge’s tentative ruling lifting an order that had blocked the state from carrying out executions by lethal injunction. Steve Mayer... Read More

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Execution, Lethal Injection

March 27, 2018

Man who stuffed Lubbock woman’s body into luggage set to die

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Attorneys for a condemned Texas inmate who became known as the “suitcase killer” looked to the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution set for Tuesday evening for the slaying of a 29-year-old Lubbock woman whose battered, naked body was stuffed into a new piece of luggage and tossed in the... Read More

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Rosendo Rodriguez

March 22, 2018

Alabama to execute convicted bomber nearly 30 years later

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Judge Robert S. Vance was at his kitchen table on Dec. 16, 1989, when he opened a package that had been mailed to his home. The bomb hidden inside exploded with brutal force, killing Vance instantly and severely injuring his wife. Two days later, a similar device killed an attorney in... Read More

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Bombing

March 19, 2018

Lawyers: Execution could be ‘gruesome’ due to rare condition

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A condemned Missouri inmate faces a potentially “gruesome and painful” execution because of a rare medical condition that compromises the man’s veins and causes multiple tumors in his head and throat, his attorney said Sunday. Russell Bucklew is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday evening for killing a former girlfriend’s new... Read More

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Russel Bucklew

March 16, 2018

Man convicted of killing carnival boss executed in Alabama

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his former boss at a traveling carnival nearly two decades ago was executed Thursday night after dropping his appeals and asking to be put to death. Michael Wayne Eggers, 50, died at 7:29 p.m. CDT after receiving a lethal injection at a southwest Alabama prison. He... Read More

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Michael Wayne Eggers

March 16, 2018

Georgia executes man known as the ‘stocking strangler’

JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — A man known as the “stocking strangler” was executed Thursday for the rape-slayings of three older women in attacks that terrorized a Georgia city four decades ago. Carlton Gary, 67, was put to death by injection of compounded pentobarbital, a barbiturate, at the state prison in Jackson. He was the first... Read More

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Carlton Gary

March 15, 2018

Lawyer: ‘Stocking strangler’ inmate should not be executed

ATLANTA (AP) — A lawyer for a Georgia inmate known as the “stocking strangler” says newly discovered evidence proves his client’s innocence, and his planned execution this week would be a “stain on the State of Georgia.” Carlton Gary, 67, is scheduled to be put to death Thursday evening at the state prison in Jackson... Read More

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Carlton Gary

March 8, 2018

Condemned Ohio killer claims innocence, asks for mercy

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A condemned Ohio killer scheduled to die next month should be spared because of the possibility of other suspects and questions about when one of the victims was slain, attorneys planned to argue to the state’s parole board on Thursday. At issue before the board is the conviction and death sentence... Read More

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William Montgomery

February 28, 2018

US Supreme Court won’t hear appeal of condemned woman

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court says it won’t hear an appeal by Ohio’s only condemned female killer. Death row inmate Donna Roberts was convicted of planning her ex-husband’s 2001 killing with a boyfriend in hopes of collecting insurance money. The high court on Feb. 20 rejected Roberts’ request to review the case.... Read More

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Donna Roberts

February 26, 2018

Texas dragging death killer loses federal court appeal

HOUSTON (AP) — A prisoner on Texas death row for the dragging death of a man nearly two decades ago in East Texas has lost a federal court appeal, moving him a step close to execution for the hate crime. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week turned down an appeal from 43-year-old... Read More

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John William King

February 23, 2018

Alabama postpones execution of inmate with damaged veins

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama on Thursday halted the execution of an inmate who had argued that his veins were too damaged for lethal injection, because medical staff did not think they could connect the intravenous line by the time the death warrant expired at midnight. Alabama Corrections Commissioner Jeff Dunn said the prison system... Read More

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Doyle Lee Hamm

February 23, 2018

Florida man screams, yells ‘murderers!’ as he’s put to death

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — As the execution drugs were being administered, inmate Eric Scott Branch let out a blood-curdling scream. Then he yelled “murderers! murderers! murderers!” as he thrashed on a gurney as he was being put to death for the 1993 rape and slaying of a college student. The drugs included a powerful sedative... Read More

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Eric Scott Branch

February 22, 2018

Florida to execute man in 1993 slaying of college student

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is preparing to execute a man convicted of raping and killing a college student in 1993 so he could steal her car. Barring a last-minute stay, 47-year-old Eric Scott Branch will be put to death by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Thursday at Florida State Prison. Branch was convicted of... Read More

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Eric Scott Branch

News media sue over California’s new execution rules

The Latest: Attorney won’t contest lethal injection ruling

Man who stuffed Lubbock woman’s body into luggage set to die

Alabama to execute convicted bomber nearly 30 years later

Lawyers: Execution could be ‘gruesome’ due to rare condition

Man convicted of killing carnival boss executed in Alabama

Georgia executes man known as the ‘stocking strangler’

Lawyer: ‘Stocking strangler’ inmate should not be executed

Condemned Ohio killer claims innocence, asks for mercy

US Supreme Court won’t hear appeal of condemned woman

Texas dragging death killer loses federal court appeal

Alabama postpones execution of inmate with damaged veins

Florida man screams, yells ‘murderers!’ as he’s put to death

Florida to execute man in 1993 slaying of college student

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