Botched Executions

Nov 30, 2022

Alabama offi­cials have agreed not to make a sec­ond attempt to exe­cute Alan Miller by lethal injec­tion after the state had to call off his September 22, 2022 exe­cu­tion because of the fail­ure to estab­lish an IV line…

Mental Illness

Nov 29, 2022

Texas is plan­ning to exe­cute a seri­ous­ly men­tal­ly ill pris­on­er who has gouged out both of his eyes because of his para­noid schiz­o­phre­nia. On November 7, 2022, the District Court of Grayson County, Texas set an April 5, 2023 exe­cu­tion date for 

Race

Nov 28, 2022

Despite a court-appoint­ed spe­cial prosecutor’s request to vacate his death sen­tence, Missouri death-row pris­on­er Kevin Johnson (pic­tured, with daugh­ter Khorry Ramey, left, and new­born grand­son) is sched­uled to be exe­cut­ed on November 29, 2022. The…

Botched Executions

Nov 23, 2022

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (pic­tured) has halt­ed exe­cu­tions and ordered a ​“top-to-bot­tom review” of the state’s exe­cu­tion pro­ce­dures, five days after fail­ures by cor­rec­tions per­son­nel to estab­lish an intra­venous exe­cu­tion line caus…

Nov 22, 2022

Corrections per­son­nel who par­tic­i­pate in exe­cut­ing pris­on­ers expe­ri­ence emo­tion­al trau­ma so pro­found that it changes their views about cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment, a National Public Radio (NPR) inves­ti­ga­tion has found. For stories…

Innocence

Nov 21, 2022

Oklahoma has pushed back the clemen­cy hear­ings of two men on death row, John Hanson and Richard Glossip (pic­tured). Glossip’s exe­cu­tion date was also moved back, and Hanson’s exe­cu­tion date will like­ly have to be changed. Both men were sched­uled t…

Botched Executions

Nov 18, 2022

Kenneth Eugene Smith’s November 17 exe­cu­tion was halt­ed after Alabama offi­cials spent an hour try­ing to set intra­venous lines for the lethal injec­tion drugs. Earlier that evening, Smith’s exe­cu­tion had been stayed…

Intellectual Disability

Nov 17, 2022

The Tennessee Attorney General’s Office attempt­ed to pre­serve a tri­al court rul­ing deny­ing Byron Black’s intel­lec­tu­al dis­abil­i­ty claim, argu­ing before the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) on November 8. …

Innocence

Nov 16, 2022

In its third exe­cu­tion of 2022, Arizona exe­cut­ed Murray Hooper for a 1980 crime that was nev­er ana­lyzed using mod­ern foren­sic meth­ods. In the days pre­ced­ing his exe­cu­tion, his attor­neys con­tin­ued to request DNA te…

Public Opinion

Nov 15, 2022

Two nation­al polls have found that sup­port for cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in the United States remains near half-cen­tu­ry lows despite record-high per­cep­tion that local crime has increased. The 2022 Crime Survey by Gallup, adminis…