Members phkrause Posted March 16, 2023 Members Share Posted March 16, 2023 When it comes to deciding on the death penalty, it’s not always a party line vote Lawmakers in the 2023 session will make a weighty decision on the death penalty — and the vote may not be on a straight party line. https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/03/15/when-it-comes-to-deciding-on-the-death-penalty-its-not-always-a-party-line-vote/? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted April 2, 2023 Author Members Share Posted April 2, 2023 FL Senate on death penalty: 8 jurors, not 12, would be required to put someone to death The Florida Senate passed legislation Thursday to get rid of a requirement for a unanimous jury recommendation before a death penalty can be imposed. The measure would require just eight jurors, not 12, to support a penalty of death. https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/03/30/fl-senate-on-death-penalty-8-jurors-not-12-would-be-required-to-put-someone-to-death/? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted November 17, 2023 Author Members Share Posted November 17, 2023 Texas man executed for 2001 killing of 5-year-old girl abducted from a store HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man convicted of strangling a 5-year-old girl who was taken from a Walmart store nearly 22 years ago and burning her body was executed Thursday evening. https://apnews.com/article/texas-execution-el-paso-5b4d2f1a66e3050dcecfd2fd10e546f3? Alabama inmate executed for the shooting death of man in 1993 robbery ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate convicted of killing a man during a 1993 robbery when he was a teenager was executed Thursday by lethal injection. https://apnews.com/article/alabama-death-penalty-lethal-injection-a491821db2a2a29e4e208ca127c071c7? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted December 20, 2023 Author Members Share Posted December 20, 2023 Is the death penalty dying? Sentences, executions remain low The number of states imposing or performing executions in 2023 was at a 20-year low, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a group that complies such statistics. https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/12/18/is-the-death-penalty-dying-sentences-executions-remain-low/? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted January 11 Author Members Share Posted January 11 Federal judge says Alabama can conduct nation’s 1st execution with nitrogen gas; appeal planned MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama will be allowed to put an inmate to death with nitrogen gas later this month, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, clearing the way for what would be the nation’s first execution using a new method the inmate’s lawyers criticize as cruel and experimental. https://apnews.com/article/alabama-execution-nitrogen-gas-federal-judge-19a95340c8936c38e7c86cfc77a7c39c? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted January 26 Author Members Share Posted January 26 Why are states like Alabama exploring new execution methods? An Alabama execution Thursday that would be the first to use nitrogen gas is the result of a long history of problems with lethal injections since Texas first used the method in 1982. Read more. Why this matters: Three states — Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma — have authorized nitrogen hypoxia as an execution method, but no state has attempted to use the untested method until now. Many states have had difficulty obtaining the lethal chemicals used to carry out executions. Many manufacturers of the drugs have prohibited the use of their products being in executions or stopped manufacturing them altogether. Nitrogen gas isn’t the only method states are exploring. South Carolina passed a law allowing a firing squad in 2021 and electrocution, hanging and other forms of lethal gas also remain on the books in several death penalty states. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Alabama plans to carry out the first nitrogen gas execution. How will it work and what are the risks? Vatican-affiliated Catholic charity makes urgent appeal to stop ‘barbarous’ Alabama execution Report: Belief death penalty is applied unfairly shows capital punishment’s growing isolation in US Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted January 26 Author Members Share Posted January 26 Alabama executes a man with nitrogen gas, the first time the new method has been used ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama executed a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again placed the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over capital punishment. The state said the method would be humane, but critics called it cruel and experimental. https://apnews.com/article/nitrogen-execution-death-penalty-alabama-699896815486f019f804a8afb7032900? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted January 31 Author Members Share Posted January 31 What happened at the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — As witnesses including five news reporters watched through a window, Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted and sentenced to die in the 1988 murder-for hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett, convulsed on a gurney as Alabama carried out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas. https://apnews.com/article/death-penalty-nitrogen-gas-alabama-kenneth-smith-54848cb06ce32d4b462a77b1bb25e656? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted January 31 Author Members Share Posted January 31 Could Ohio be the next state to use nitrogen gas in executions? A new method would end a 5-year halt COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s Republican attorney general put his weight behind a legislative effort Tuesday to bring nitrogen gas executions to the state, joining what could be a national movement in pro-death penalty states to expand capital punishment on the heels of Alabama’s first use of the method last week. https://apnews.com/article/death-penalty-ohio-attorney-general-c47ea9e0ef7e96c8e0264f50e6c15566? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted February 6 Author Members Share Posted February 6 South Carolina wants to restart executions with firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the South Carolina Supreme Court on Tuesday that the state’s old electric chair and new firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments. https://apnews.com/article/death-penalty-south-carolina-39930569f7ed5182f6ce9866916714aa? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted February 12 Author Members Share Posted February 12 Somebody’s Child Donald Newson entered the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, with a mix of nerves and excitement. He had not seen his father, Nasih Khalil Ra’id, in almost 20 years. Born Odell Corley, Ra’id was sent to federal death row when Newson was just a teenager. Although he insisted he’d been wrongfully convicted, his hope of freedom faded over time, and he fell out of contact with his son. Now 35, Newson wondered if his father would even recognize him. The last time they were together, Newson was just a skinny kid. “I definitely didn’t have a beard.” https://theintercept.com/2024/02/11/federal-death-row-family-visitation/? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted February 29 Author Members Share Posted February 29 Idaho halts execution by lethal injection after 8 failed attempts to insert IV line KUNA, Idaho (AP) — Idaho halted the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech on Wednesday after medical team members repeatedly failed to find a vein where they could establish an intravenous line to carry out the lethal injection. https://apnews.com/article/idaho-execution-creech-murders-serial-killer-91a12d78e9301adde77e6076dbd01dbb? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted March 8 Author Members Share Posted March 8 Botched execution of serial killer in Idaho puts focus on capital punishment secrecy laws BOISE, Idaho (AP) — In 2012, two Idaho prison officials chartered a private plane and flew to Washington state with thousands of dollars in cash. https://apnews.com/article/idaho-texas-execution-creech-cantu-lethal-injection-c1e3881ed4df4eec3bf1f2803152d61f? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted March 20 Author Members Share Posted March 20 Man convicted of ex-girlfriend’s killing scheduled to be first Georgia inmate executed in years JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man convicted of killing his former girlfriend three decades ago was scheduled to be put to death Wednesday evening in what would be the state’s first execution in more than four years. https://apnews.com/article/georgia-death-penalty-lethal-injection-execution-willie-james-pye-d9e91b51c433667bcd58b6b39f0c32cd? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted April 30 Author Members Share Posted April 30 “Little Home Market”: The Connecticut Company Accused of Fueling an Execution Spree Evidence points to Absolute Standards as the source of a lethal drug the Trump administration used to restart federal executions after 17 years. https://theintercept.com/2024/04/25/absolute-standards-execution-drug-pentobarbital/? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted May 12 Author Members Share Posted May 12 Oklahoma death row inmate who killed a bank guard is incompetent for execution, judge says OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma judge has ruled that a death row inmate is incompetent to be executed after the prisoner received mental evaluations by psychologists for both defense attorneys and state prosecutors. https://apnews.com/article/oklahoma-execution-incompetent-wade-lay-f9e41ad60581cdfca57b0d4c108ae38e? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted Sunday at 02:15 PM Author Members Share Posted Sunday at 02:15 PM DeSantis increased executions during presidential campaign, then slowed down Last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed execution warrants for six Florida inmates, the most in any year in the state since 2014. He was also running for president. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/07/19/desantis-increased-executions-during-presidential-campaign-then-slowed-down/? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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