Tennessee death row inmate declines to pick execution method, defaults to lethal injection

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection before his ...

Supreme Court to hear death row inmate’s challenge of racial bias in jury selection

The Supreme Court will hear a death row inmate's racial bias challenge in jury selection, but will not hear a case on federal ...
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Ruling puts fate of Florida death row inmates in question

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South Carolina Adds Firing Squad to Death Row Execution Methods

The South Carolina House voted Wednesday, May 5, to add a firing squad to the state’s execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs—a measure meant to jump-start executions in a state that ...
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Attorney says electrocardiogram at Tennessee execution was active after inmate was pronounced dead

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An electrocardiogram monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two minutes after Byron Black ...

US Supreme Court to weigh death row inmate's intellectual disability ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to hear a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted ...
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Oklahoma's unique position in the death penalty abolition movement

Oklahoma leads the nation in executing death row inmates. Now, multiple Oklahoma-based organizations are joining the effort ...

Indiana House Republicans file bill to repeal state’s death penalty

INDIANAPOLIS — Several Statehouse Republicans have filed a bill that would repeal the death penalty next year if passed. This comes as the state executed death row inmate Joseph Corcoran, the first ...