Could Louisiana soon resume death row executions?
11 months, 1 week ago

Could Louisiana soon resume death row executions?

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Louisiana hasn’t carried out a death row execution since 2010, but between a new conservative governor who is in favor of capital punishment and other states implementing alternative methods to lethal injections, the Deep South state could soon look at ways to resume. Jeff Landry hinted at a willingness to explore expanding execution methods, saying he is committed to upholding “contractual obligations” between the state and victims’ families after a death sentence has been handed down in court. When that state put Kenneth Eugene Smith, a convicted murderer, to death on Jan. 25, it was also the first time a new execution method had been used in the United States since lethal injection, now the most common one, was introduced in 1982. Last year nearly every death row inmate in Louisiana asked for clemency — the commutation of a death sentence to life in prison — from then-Gov.

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Is South Carolina Willing to Heed the Clearest Lesson We Have About Executions?
55 years ago

Is South Carolina Willing to Heed the Clearest Lesson We Have About Executions?

Slate  

Carrying out an execution is always a complicated business that takes a horrible toll on anyone who is associated with it. On Monday, the South Carolina Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for the state’s next execution and also agreed to consider a request from four of the state’s death-row inmates that South Carolina wait at least three months between executions. …

Georgia death row inmate to be executed after last-ditch appeal
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Georgia death row inmate to be executed after last-ditch appeal

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Willie James Pye, 59, has been on death …

Georgia readies to resume executions after a 4-year pause brought by COVID and a legal agreement
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Georgia readies to resume executions after a 4-year pause brought by COVID and a legal agreement

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — An execution scheduled for next week would be the first in Georgia in more than four years. In April 2021, the state attorney general’s office entered into an agreement with attorneys for death row prisoners to suspend executions for a certain group of prisoners and to establish conditions under which they could resume. In early 2021, a committee …

Lawmakers bidding to resume Louisiana executions after 14-year pause OK new death penalty methods
10 months, 1 week ago

Lawmakers bidding to resume Louisiana executions after 14-year pause OK new death penalty methods

Associated Press  

— Bidding to resume Louisiana executions after a 14-year pause, the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature gave final passage to a bill Thursday to add electrocution and the use of nitrogen gas as means of administering the death penalty. Amid ongoing challenges over obtaining lethal injection drugs, Louisiana’s bill follows in the steps of other reliably red states that have expanded their …

Louisiana advances a bill expanding death penalty methods in an effort to resume executions
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Louisiana advances a bill expanding death penalty methods in an effort to resume executions

Associated Press  

— In an effort to resume Louisiana’s death row executions that have been paused for 14 years, lawmakers on Friday advanced a bill that would add the use of nitrogen gas and electrocution as possible methods to carry out capital punishment. Over the past couple of decades, executions in the United States have reduced — in part because of legal …

Could Louisiana soon resume death row executions?
11 months, 1 week ago

Could Louisiana soon resume death row executions?

Associated Press  

— Louisiana hasn’t carried out a death row execution since 2010, but between a new conservative governor who is in favor of capital punishment and other states implementing alternative methods to lethal injections, the Deep South state could soon look at ways to resume. Jeff Landry hinted at a willingness to explore expanding execution methods, saying he is committed to …

All 56 Louisiana death row clemency petitions turned away for being ineligible
1 year, 5 months ago

All 56 Louisiana death row clemency petitions turned away for being ineligible

Associated Press  

— After nearly every death row inmate in Louisiana asked for clemency en masse, the state’s pardon board turned away all 56 petitions this week. He urged lawmakers to get rid of the death penalty, saying it was “inconsistent with Louisiana’s pro-life values, as it quite literally promotes a culture of death.” The bill to abolish the death penalty failed …

Executions may return to South Carolina; shield law nears OK
1 year, 8 months ago

Executions may return to South Carolina; shield law nears OK

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A bill that would allow South Carolina to buy the drugs needed for lethal injection without revealing the name of the company who sells them will soon be heading for the governor’s desk. South Carolina has had an unintended 12-year moratorium on the death penalty after its lethal injection drugs passed their expiration date and pharmacies refused …

Alabama to resume executions after multiple failed injections prompted system review, governor says
1 year, 10 months ago

Alabama to resume executions after multiple failed injections prompted system review, governor says

CNN  

CNN — Alabama will resume the executions of death row inmates, the governor said Friday, three months after multiple failed lethal injections prompted an internal review of the state’s capital punishment system. In November, Ivey asked Marshall to pause executions and requested the state Department of Corrections to conduct a “top-to-bottom review of the state’s execution process” after problems with …

Execution suit tossed because Louisiana can’t get drugs
2 years, 9 months ago

Execution suit tossed because Louisiana can’t get drugs

Associated Press  

BATON ROUGE — A federal judge has dismissed a nearly decade-old lawsuit against executions in Louisiana, saying there’s nothing to challenge because the state can only get the required drugs as medicines. Louisiana should now join neighboring states in finding ways to execute people sentenced to death, state Attorney General Jeff Landry said Thursday. The judge noted that since a …

US government will execute inmates for first time since 2003
5 years, 5 months ago

US government will execute inmates for first time since 2003

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Thursday the federal government will resume executing death-row inmates for the first time since 2003, ending an informal moratorium even as the nation sees a broad shift away from capital punishment. Though there hasn’t been a federal execution since 2003, the Justice Department has continued to approve death penalty prosecutions and federal courts have …

Death penalty to resume in U.S., says Justice Department
5 years, 5 months ago

Death penalty to resume in U.S., says Justice Department

The Hindu  

The U.S. Justice Department announced on Thursday it was reinstating a two-decades long dormant policy to resume the federal government’s use of capital punishment and immediately scheduled the executions for five death row federal inmates. “Congress has expressly authorised the death penalty through legislation adopted by the peoples representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the President,” Attorney …

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