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Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Alabama Prisoner’s Family Sues Over Allegedly Botched Execution by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On May 3, 2023, the family of Joe Nathan James Jr., an Alabama prisoner executed in July 2022, sued Gov. Kay Ivey (R) and other state officials, claiming he suffered excessive pain and was unconscious too …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Ohio Governor Reprieves Three Condemned Prisoners by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Ohio prisoners James O’Neal, Jerome Henderson and Melvin Bonnell were all scheduled to die by lethal injection between August and October 2023. However, on April 14, 2023, Gov. Mike Dewine (R) delayed each execution over two years. DeWine …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Filed under: Death Penalty
SCOTUS Orders Last-Minute Stay of Execution for Oklahoma Death Row Prisoner Richard Glossip by In a surprising turn of events, the Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS) granted a stay of execution to condemned Oklahoma prisoner Richard Glossip on May 5, 2023. The decision marks the ninth time Glossip, 60, …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Eighth Circuit Greenlights Arkansas Execution Protocol by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett Despite finding a “paucity of reliable scientific evidence concerning the effect of large doses of midazolam on humans,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit didn’t halt its use in Arkansas’s three-drug execution protocol. To the …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Condemned Tennessee Prisoner Wins Fight Against Autopsy by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On April 20, 2022, the federal court for the Middle District of Tennessee issued a highly unusal order enjoining the Davidson County medical examiner from performing an autopsy or collecting bodily fluids from a prisoner following his …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Condemned Tennessee Prisoner Wins Fight Against Autopsy by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On April 20, 2022, the federal court for the Middle District of Tennessee issued a highly unusal order enjoining the Davidson County medical examiner from performing an autopsy or collecting bodily fluids from a prisoner following his …
Article • April 27, 2023
Filed under: Death Penalty
Pennsylvania Politicians Push to Abolish Death Penalty by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman On April 17, 2023, Democratic lawmakers in both chambers of Pennsylvania’s General Assembly filed bills to repeal the state’s death penalty. HB999 was introduced in the House and SB600 in the senate two months and one day …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Arizona Prisoner Waits in Excruciating Pain While Incompetent Executioners Fumble by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD A frail, elderly, wheelchair-bound prisoner had to assist the execution team killing him in Arizona on June 8, 2022. It was the state’s second execution since breaking an eight-year hiatus to kill …
Article • March 21, 2023
Filed under: Malpractice, Death Penalty
Arizona Supreme Court Asked to Order Governor to Carry Out Prisoner’s Execution, Despite Three Botched Killings in 2022 by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Convicted murderer Aaron Gunches is scheduled to die by lethal injection in Arizona on April 6, 2023. But Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: Death Penalty
South Carolina Judge Halts State Executions by Electrocution and Firing Squad by David Reutter, Edward Lyon by David M. Reutter and Ed Lyon On September 6, 2022, the Richland County Court of Common Pleas granted an injunction in a challenge brought by four condemned South Carolina prisoners to 2021 state …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: Death Penalty, Stays
Condemned Alabama Prisoner Now Spared Twice by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman When his death warrant expired at 12:01 a.m. on September 23, 2022, condemned Alabama prisoner Alan Eugene Miller was still alive, capping a wild few days during which his execution was stayed by a federal judge and then …
Article • October 31, 2022 • from PLN November, 2022
Filed under: Death Penalty
Tennessee Governor Suspends Executions, Orders Investigation Into Lethal Injection Process by Harold Hempstead by Harold Hempstead On May 2, 2022, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) halted all executions scheduled for the remainder of the year for an independent investigation into the state’s lethal injection protocols. Four days later, the interim …
Article • May 1, 2022 • from PLN May, 2022
Filed under: Death Penalty
Lifting Six-Year Moratorium, Oklahoma Treats Witnesses to Convulsing and Vomiting Prisoner During Execution by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders  Several journalists spoke out about what they witnessed during the execution by lethal injection of Oklahoma prisoner John Marion Grant on October 28, 2021, saying the 60-year-old convulsed over a dozen …
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
Majority of Americans Now Favor Life Imprisonment Over Death Penalty by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke For the first time since Americans’ opinion about the death penalty versus life imprisonment was polled, a majority of Americans favor life imprisonment over the death penalty. In 1985, Gallup began asking the question: …
Article • July 1, 2021 • from PLN July, 2021
Virginia Votes to Abolish Death Penalty by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The use of DNA testing to overturn hundreds of wrongful convictions in the U.S. has revealed deep racial inequalities in the criminal justice system. Emboldened by victories at the polls in 2018 and 2020, Democrats are calling for …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Books: “Let The Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty” by Robert Dunham by Robert Dunham, Death Penalty Information Center In his new book, Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty, journalist Maurice Chammah presages the death of America’s capital …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Sequel: Three Additional Federal Executions Before Trump Left Office by Chad Marks by Chad Marks As detailed in this month’s cover story, former President Trump and Attorney General Barr were responsible for a spree of federal executions during their final months in office. But the ProPublica cover story was written …
Article • March 1, 2021 • from PLN March, 2021
Filed under: COVID-19, Death Penalty
Analysis: Federal Executions in Indiana Became ‘Super-Spreader’ Events by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna It seems inconceivable that prison personnel selected to carry out the ultimate judicial sanction – execution — would willfully violate Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines and expose themselves, their families, prisoners and staff, clergy, …
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
COVID-19 Deaths in Jails, Prisons Exceed Number of Deaths by Execution From 1990 to Present by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc in jails and prisons across the county. The number of virus-related prisoner deaths reached 1,453 on November 17, 2020. This number exceeds the 1,406 …
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Alabama Executes Non-Shooter in Police Killings by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The death penalty is advocated both for punishing the most atrocious cases of murder and for its alleged deterrent effect. Yet on March 5, 2020, Alabama executed a 44-year-old man, not for committing murder but instead because …
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