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  • Arizona's Jeffrey Landrigan executed despite concerns drugs not FDA-approved _

    10/27/2010 10:10:10 AM PDT · by managusta · 54 replies · 2+ views
    NY Daily news ^ | 10/27/2010 | Aliyah Shahid
    The state of Arizona executed a convicted murderer on Tuesday night despite objections from attorneys that the state would use a non-approved drug from overseas for the lethal injection. Just hours before Jeffrey Landrigan's death, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to lift a stay issued by a federal judge to halt the execution. "There is no evidence in the record to suggest that the drug obtained from a foreign source is unsafe," the Supreme Court said Due to a U.S. shortage, the state turned to a non-FDA approved drug. It was later revealed that the source was the U.K., although...
  • State obtains new supply of lethal injection drug (way to go, California)

    10/06/2010 9:25:00 PM PDT · by doug from upland · 9 replies
    Mercury News ^ | Oct 6, 2010 | Paul Elias
    State obtains new supply of lethal injection drug SAN FRANCISCO—Prison officials obtained a drug essential to the lethal injection process the day after canceling California's first execution in nearly five years partly due to a shortage of that very drug, a court filing stated Wednesday. The state Attorney General's office told U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel it obtained 12 grams of sodium thiopental last Thursday, the same day Albert Greenwood Brown was to be executed. But the execution was called off the day before when the Attorney General's office said a state Supreme Court ruling and its apparent drug...
  • Some US executions held up by shortage of drug

    09/27/2010 1:25:18 PM PDT · by JoeProBono · 27 replies
    hosted ^ | Sep 27
    COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Some executions in the U.S. have been put on hold because of a shortage of one of the drugs used in lethal injections from coast to coast. Several of the 35 states that rely on lethal injection are either scrambling to find sodium thiopental - an anesthetic that renders the condemned inmate unconscious - or considering using another drug. But both routes are strewn with legal or ethical roadblocks. The shortage delayed an Oklahoma execution last month and led Kentucky's governor to postpone the signing of death warrants for two inmates. Arizona is trying to get...
  • About that first woman executed in US in 5 years …

    09/24/2010 12:43:52 PM PDT · by Mobile Vulgus · 22 replies
    Publius Forum ^ | 09/24/10 | Warner Todd Huston
    OK, the story is all over the Old Media edifice: forty-one-year-old Teresa Lewis has become "the first woman to be executed in the U.S. in five years." Every news outlet from TV and cable, to newspapers, to radio, to the Internet is using this line, this "the first woman to be executed in the U.S. in five years" line. They are all playing the same narrative. So, here's the question I have. How exactly can anyone be the "first" anything "in five years"? Doesn't the whole "in five years" presuppose that someone else came first? See, the one "five years"...
  • Virginia to Execute Woman for 1st Time in 98 Years

    09/12/2010 1:37:11 PM PDT · by Justaham · 34 replies
    aolnews.com ^ | 9-12-10
    Barring intervention from the governor or Supreme Court, the state of Virginia plans to execute a woman later this month for the first time in nearly a century. Teresa Lewis, a 41-year-old grandmother with such a low IQ that she's classified as borderline mentally retarded, is set to die by lethal injection on Sept. 23. She'll be the state's first female prisoner put to death in 98 years. Lewis pleaded guilty to hiring two men to murder her husband and stepson in their trailer in Virginia's rural Pittsylvania county in 2002, in order to collect life insurance money. She took...
  • CA: State's new execution plan is challenged in court

    08/02/2010 4:10:15 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 17 replies · 3+ views
    LA Times ^ | 8/2/10 | Carol J. Williams
    A death row inmate convicted of the 1985 torture and murder of a pizza deliveryman in Glendale asked a court Monday to strike down the state's newly revised execution procedures as illegal and likely to inflict excruciating pain if used on any of California's 700-plus condemned prisoners. The lawsuit filed by Mitchell Sims, 50, alleges that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation rushed through revisions of the lethal injection procedures and deliberately sought to shut the public out of the process. Corrections officials approved the changes one day before a May 1 deadline and sent them to the Office...
  • Ohio man executed for fire deaths of 5 children

    07/13/2010 9:22:23 AM PDT · by JoeProBono · 10 replies
    hosted ^ | Jul 13
    LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio man said he was "heartily sorry" before he was executed Tuesday for the murders of five children in a 1992 Cincinnati apartment fire he set in an attempt to destroy evidence of a burglary. William Garner, 37, died by lethal injection at 10:38 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility....
  • Ohio executes hitchhiker who shot 3 drivers in '83

    05/13/2010 8:50:23 AM PDT · by JoeProBono · 24 replies · 769+ views
    hosted ^ | May 13 | JULIE CARR SMYTH
    LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio executed a hitchhiker Thursday who admitted to killing one motorist who gave him a ride and shooting two others during a three-week string of shootings that terrorized the Cincinnati area in 1983. Michael Beuke, 48, died by lethal injection at 10:53 a.m. EDT at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, about 90 minutes after the Ohio Supreme Court turned down his final appeal.....
  • CA: State moves closer to resuming executions

    01/06/2010 6:20:23 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 6 replies · 385+ views
    Stockton Record ^ | 1/6/10 | Scott Smith
    The state released its revised lethal injection guidelines Tuesday, inching one step closer to resuming executions in California, beginning with Stockton's Michael Angelo Morales. The changes follow a June public hearing when death penalty foes from around the world converged on Sacramento to speak out against the procedure. They also mailed in more than 8,000 letters addressing the protocol. The public now has until Jan. 20 to comment on the changes. The 25-page document indicates small revisions, from defining a "chaplain" and the "lethal injection room" to clarifying that the curtains remain open in the execution chamber until after the...
  • Ohio executes inmate with 1-drug lethal injection

    12/08/2009 11:03:02 AM PST · by JoeProBono · 17 replies · 1,095+ views
    hosted ^ | Dec 8 | ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
    Ohio executed a killer Tuesday by performing the nation's first lethal injection using a single drug, a supposedly less painful method than previous executions that required three drugs. Kenneth Biros was pronounced dead at 11:47 a.m. Tuesday, about 10 minutes after one dose of thiopental sodium began flowing into his veins at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. The U.S. Supreme Court had rejected his final appeal about two hours before. Experts predicted the thiopental sodium would take longer to kill the 51-year-old Biros than the convention three-drug cocktail, but the 10 minutes it apparently took him to die...
  • Fort Hood shooting: Maj Nidal Malik Hasan could be executed

    11/07/2009 12:09:25 AM PST · by malkee · 73 replies · 3,060+ views
    The Telegraph ^ | 11/7/09 | Tom Leonard
    Maj Nidal Malik Hasan could become the first person to be sentenced to death by a military court in almost 50 years. The US Armed Forces has a death penalty – lethal injection – but there have been no executions since 1961 when an army private, John Bennett, was hanged for rape and attempted murder. The military can also impose a sentence of life imprisonment without parole and there are nine men on its death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. A "convening authority", a high-ranking officer, will decide whether the government will seek the death penalty. If so, it has...
  • Ohio killer's lethal injection marks 1,000th in US

    07/21/2009 12:38:35 PM PDT · by JoeProBono · 35 replies · 812+ views
    hostednews ^ | 1 hour ago | MATT LEINGANG
    LUCASVILLE, Ohio — A man who went on a 1992 Christmas holiday killing spree that left six people dead, including an 18-year-old mother gunned down at a pay phone, was executed Tuesday, the state's second execution in two weeks and the 1,000th lethal injection in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
  • Inmate Fails To Convince Courts He's "Too Fat To Execute"

    10/10/2008 7:17:27 AM PDT · by Justice Department · 20 replies · 890+ views
    allheadlinenews. ^ | October 9, 2008
    Cincinnati, OH (AHN) - The Ohio Supreme Court and the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have ruled against staying the execution of an inmate because he is obese. The two courts upheld an earlier ruling of the U.S. The double murder convict argued that lethal injection might not be properly administered to him and might be painful and slow because his physical condition will make it difficult to find a vein where the lethal drug will be injected.
  • Supreme Court justices appear divided over lethal injection case

    01/07/2008 11:25:49 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 39 replies · 511+ views
    ap on San Diego Union - Tribune ^ | 1/07/08 | Mark Sherman - ap
    WASHINGTON – Supreme Court justices indicated Monday they are deeply divided over a challenge to the way most states execute prisoners by lethal injection, which critics say creates an avoidable risk of excruciating pain. With executions in the United States halted since late September, the court heard arguments in a case from Kentucky that calls into question the mix of three drugs used in most executions. Justice Antonin Scalia was among several conservatives on the court who suggested he would uphold Kentucky's method of execution and allow capital punishment to resume. States have been careful to adopt procedures that do...
  • China Switches to Lethal Injection

    01/04/2008 2:56:37 AM PST · by JACKRUSSELL · 14 replies · 27+ views
    The Guardian ^ | January 4, 2008 | By David Stanway
    China's executioners are planning to increase the use of lethal injections in order to make executions "more humane", a senior court official told the state media yesterday. Jiang Xingchang, vice-president of the supreme court, told the China Daily that lethal injections would eventually be used in all intermediate people's courts, instead of relying on firing squads. Lethal injections have already been used throughout China, particularly in high-profile cases such as the execution of gangsters and corrupt government officials. Human Rights Watch in China said that there were 1,770 known executions carried out in China in 2005, more than 80% of...
  • Why have 36 states clung to a method of using 3 chemicals to execute prisoners?

    01/03/2008 7:25:32 AM PST · by Sopater · 38 replies · 200+ views
    Star Tribune ^ | January 2, 2008 | ADAM LIPTAK
    The Supreme Court will hear a case Monday that examines what is cruel and unusual punishment.When a state panel recommended in April that Tennessee abandon the three chemicals used in executions across the nation in favor of the single drug usually used in animal euthanasia, the state's corrections commissioner said no. Though the move would have simplified executions and eliminated the possibility of excruciating pain, the commissioner, George Little, said Tennessee should not be "out at the forefront" of a decision with "political ramifications." Little's decision helps illuminate one of the questions lurking behind the year's most eagerly anticipated death...
  • DEATH PENALTY'S DEADLY VACATION

    11/02/2007 6:27:59 AM PDT · by fweingart · 34 replies · 298+ views
    New York Post ^ | November 2, 2007 | JOHN R. LOTT JR.
    November 2, 2007 -- THE Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively halted U.S. executions via lethal injection until it can rule on a challenge to the constitutionality of a particular execution "cocktail." This is just the latest example of the whittling away of the death penalty - the courts have already cut executions by over a third since 1999.
  • Review Doesn't Halt Texas Executions

    09/25/2007 9:07:15 PM PDT · by SmithL · 23 replies · 85+ views
    AP via SFGate ^ | 9/25/7 | MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press Writer
    Huntsville, Texas (AP) -- The nation's busiest death penalty state executed another inmate Tuesday night, hours after the Supreme Court said it would review whether the lethal injection method most states use is cruel and unusual. Michael Richard, 49, was put to death for the 1986 shooting of Marguerite Lucille Dixon, a 53-year-old nurse and mother of seven. Richard had been released from his second prison term eight weeks before Dixon was raped and killed inside her home. Asked if he'd like to make a final statement, Richard said, "I'd like my family to take care of each other. I...
  • SCotUS: Court to consider lethal injection

    09/25/2007 10:47:33 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 29 replies · 108+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 9/25/07 | Pete Yost - ap
    WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider the constitutionality of lethal injections in a case that could affect the way inmates are executed around the country. The high court will hear a challenge from two inmates on death row in Kentucky — Ralph Baze and Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr. — who sued Kentucky in 2004, claiming lethal injection amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. Baze has been scheduled for execution Tuesday night, but the Kentucky Supreme Court halted the proceedings earlier this month. The U.S. Supreme Court has previously made it easier for death row inmates to...
  • Crist signs 1st death warrant, ends halt on lethal injections

    07/18/2007 11:29:22 AM PDT · by Happy Valley Dude · 11 replies · 487+ views
    Associated Press ^ | 7/18/2007 | BILL KACZOR
    Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday signed his first death warrant since taking office in January, ending a temporary halt on lethal injections that was imposed because of a botched execution last year. Mark Dean Schwab, 38, is scheduled to be executed Nov. 15, Crist said. Schwab was sentenced to death in 1992 for the kidnapping, rape and murder of 11-year-old Junny Rios-Martinez of Cocoa. He targeted the boy after seeing his picture in a newspaper. In December, then-Gov. Jeb Bush suspended all Florida executions after a medical examiner said that prison officials botched the insertion of the needles when convicted...