Utah Carries Out First Execution Since 2010
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who killed his girlfriend’s mother by slashing her throat was put to death by lethal injection early Thursday in the state’s first …
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rewrite this content and keep HTML tags A table fitted with restraints before an execution at Huntsville Unit in Texas (Image: Getty) Moments before her children’s killer was to be …
Texas Plans To Execute Ramiro Gonzales
In 2006, Ramiro Gonzales was sentenced to death in Texas as punishment for kidnapping, raping and killing Bridget Townsend when they were both 18 years old. There were indications that …
Weeks Ahead Of Scheduled Execution, David Hosier Hospitalized
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri death row prisoner who is due to be executed next month has been hospitalized because of a “medical emergency,” a spokeswoman for the Missouri …
Harris County Judge Recommends Overturning Jeffery Prevost’s Death Sentence
A judge in Harris County, Texas, the execution capital of the country, recommended earlier this month overturning a man’s death sentence, finding that he received ineffective legal assistance at trial. …
Alabama’s New Execution Method: What is Nitrogen Hypoxia? |
Alabama successfully executed a man who spent decades on death row using a new method called nitrogen hypoxia. DW delves into the method’s scientific and ethical implications.Kenneth Smith, 58, was …
Alabama Kills Prisoner In First Nitrogen Gas Execution
Alabama carried out the first-ever execution by nitrogen gas Thursday, killing 58-year-old Kenneth Smith just over a year after he survived a failed lethal injection. Smith “appeared to shake and …