Nov 04, 2019

Whether South Dakota death-row pris­on­er Charles Rhines (pic­tured) …

Oct 31, 2019

Three U.S. exe­cu­tions were halt­ed on October 30, 2019, as the Georgia Supreme Court issued a day-of-exe­cu­tion stay to Ray Jefferson Cromartie and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (pic­tured) …

Oct 21, 2019

Under court order, Alabama has released for the first time a copy of the state’s pre­vi­ous­ly con­fi­den­tial exe­cu­tion pro­to­col. The 17-page doc­u­ment — filed on October 16, 2019 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Al…

Sep 30, 2019

A Missouri death-row pris­on­er whose rare med­ical con­di­tion, he says, risks mak­ing his exe­cu­tion by lethal injec­tion a grue­some and gris­ly spec­ta­cle is seek­ing clemen­cy from Missouri Governor Mike Parson ahead of …

Sep 24, 2019

Federal law­suits filed by coali­tions of media orga­ni­za­tions in two states high­light recent media efforts to vin­di­cate the public’s right to wit­ness exe­cu­tions in their entire­ty. On September 17, 2019, the 

Sep 11, 2019

Saying that ​“suf­fo­ca­tion does not qual­i­fy as ​‘severe pain and need­less suf­fer­ing,’” a fed­er­al appeals court in Ohio has ruled that the state’s three-drug exe­cu­tion pro­to­col does not vio­late the con­sti­tu­tion­al pro­hi­bi­tion against c…

Aug 23, 2019

The tur­moil sur­round­ing Ohio’s death penal­ty con­tin­ued to grow as pub­lic health experts crit­i­cized a legislator’s sug­ges­tion that the state use seized drugs to car­ry out exe­cu­tions and the Speaker of the Ohio House of Representati…

Aug 19, 2019

The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform announced on August 14, 2019 that it has launched an inves­ti­ga­tion into the Department of Justice’s plan to 

Aug 01, 2019

Ohio can­not obtain drugs to car­ry out exe­cu­tions with­out putting pub­lic health at risk, Governor Mike DeWine (pic­tured) announced on July 31, 2019. DeWine told reporters that phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal man­u­fac­tur­ers are unwill­ing to sell the state drugs for e…

Jul 25, 2019

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced its intent to adopt a new fed­er­al exe­cu­tion pro­to­col using a sin­gle exe­cu­tion drug and has issued death war­rants set­ting exe­cu­tion dates for five fed­er­al death-row pris­on­ers. In a