Updated: Sep 25, 2024

News Brief

Tennessee Sets Three Execution Dates for Most-in-Nation 5 Pending Executions in 2022

Mar 05, 2022

The Tennessee Supreme Court has issued death war­rants set­ting exe­cu­tion dates for three pris­on­ers, bring­ing to five — the nation’s‑high — the num­ber of exe­cu­tions pend­ing in the state in 2022. On February 22, 2022, the court set exe­cu­tion dates of August 18 for Byron Black, October 6 for Gary Sutton, and December 8 for Donald Middlebrooks. The court had pre­vi­ous­ly set exe­cu­tion dates of April 21 for Oscar…

Read More »

Tennessee Sets Three Execution Dates for Most-in-Nation 5 Pending Executions in 2022

Ohio Governor Issues Three More Reprieves, Reschedules Executions for 2025

Feb 19, 2022

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has issued reprieves of three more exe­cu­tions that had been set to occur in 2022, resched­ul­ing them for 2025. In exec­u­tive orders issued February 18, 2022, DeWine halt­ed the exe­cu­tions of Percy Hutton, Douglas Coley, and Cedric Carter, who had been sched­uled to be put to death June 22, July 20, and August 24, 2022, respec­tive­ly. The gov­er­nor resched­uled Hutton’s exe­cu­tion for June 18, 2025, Coley’s…

Read More »

Ohio Governor Issues Three More Reprieves, Reschedules Executions for 2025

Discussions With DPIC Podcast: The Becket Fund’s Daniel Chen on the Exercise of Religion in the Execution Chamber

Nov 15, 2021

In the November 2021 episode of Discussions with DPIC, Daniel Chen, coun­sel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, speaks with DPIC Executive Director Robert Dunham about the Supreme Court case Ramirez v. Collier and death-row pris­on­ers’ rights to reli­gious free­dom. John Ramirez has chal­lenged Texas’ restric­tions on audi­ble prayer and phys­i­cal touch by his spir­i­tu­al advi­sor dur­ing his exe­cu­tion. Allowing such pas­toral com­fort in the exe­cu­tion cham­ber, Chen says, is about…

Read More »

Discussions With DPIC Podcast: The Becket Fund’s Daniel Chen on the Exercise of Religion in the Execution Chamber