Capital Punishment
As Malaysia Softens Death Penalty Stance, Singapore Sentences More to Be Hanged
“I'm hopeful that change will happen. What I worry about is how many more lives will it take for it to happen?”
Supreme Court Sides With Georgia Inmate Who Wants to Die By Firing Squad
In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court said a death row inmate with “compromised veins” appropriately challenged his lethal injection.
Huge Spike in Drug-Related Executions in Iran
126 people were hanged for drug offences in Iran in 2021, two rights groups said, in a year in which the rate of executions doubled overall following the election of President Ebrahim Raisi.
The Prosecutor Who Requested Melissa Lucio’s Execution Now Wants Her to Live
“If defendant Lucio does not get a stay by a certain day, then I will do what I have to do and stop it,” Cameron County District Attorney Luis Saenz said Tuesday.
Singapore Just Hung Its First Death Row Inmate in 2 Years, With More Set to Follow
The execution comes a day after a Singapore court upheld the death sentence of another inmate said to have “borderline intellectual functioning.”
Supreme Court Rules Boston Marathon Bomber Can Be Executed After All
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted in 2015 of 30 charges related to the 2013 bombing attack, which killed three people and injured hundreds.
Oklahoma Is Trying to Make It Nearly Impossible to Get Off Death Row
Many critics of a new bill claim it’s a direct retaliation to Julius Jones’ life being spared last November.
Schizophrenic Death Row Inmate Is Terrified His Execution Will Get Botched
Oklahoma’s first execution since its death penalty moratorium was lifted went horribly wrong. Donald Grant is scared the same will happen to him.
Prosecutors Want an Alleged Child Rapist Chemically Castrated and Killed
The Indonesian man stands accused of raping at least 13 of his female students, bearing nine children.
This Man Has Watched 133 Executions. Now He's Next.
Bigler Jobe Stouffer has spent 36 years on death row in Oklahoma and witnessed 133 executions. Now, it's his turn.
Oklahoma Executed John Marion Grant. He Vomited and Convulsed.
Oklahoma carried out its first execution in six years Thursday night. The inmate, John Marion Grant, vomited and convulsed.
Ernest Lee Johnson Was Just Executed in Missouri
Ernest Lee Johnson, who was convicted of three 1994 murders, had fetal alcohol syndrome as a child and lost one-fifth of his brain tissue.