Death Penalty News

Zimbabwean police arrested opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai twice more on Thursday in what his spokesman said was harassment aimed at disrupting his campaign for a June 27 run-off election.

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The killing machine started it's cogs again at 18:30 CDT as it carried out the scheduled exectution of Karl Eugene Chamberlain.

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An Orange County jury has recommended the death penalty for a white supremacist convicted of killing a fellow gang member for talking about their organization on television.

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A Montgomery County man was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder and sexual assault and sentenced to life in prison in the slaying of his girlfriend's teen daughter.

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A revised Arkansas protocol for death-row cases says executioners administering lethal injections will follow methods used by "medical paraprofessionals" to ensure that condemned inmates are unconscious before ...

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Executioners administering lethal injections in Arkansas will follow methods used by "medical paraprofessionals" to ensure that condemned inmates are unconscious before delivering the two final drugs to carry ...

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Ohio's method of putting prisoners to death is unconstitutional because two of three drugs used in lethal injection can cause pain, a judge ruled Tuesday.

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Five years after Felecia Prechtl was raped and fatally shot at her East Dallas apartment, a thumbprint lifted from a roll of duct tape used to bind the 30-year-old single mom led detectives to her killer, a ...

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The top United Nations human rights official has asked Iran not to execute four people sentenced to death for crimes they committed when they were under the age of 18, reminding the country of its obligations ...

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A multiple murderer who strangled and slashed a fellow inmate aboard a bus carrying other inmates and guards was insane at the time of the 2005 killing and won't be punished, a judge ruled yesterday.

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