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Tennessee Finalizes New One-Drug Execution Protocol by No executions have been carried out by the Tennessee Department of Corrections (DOC) since May 2019, while the state reviewed its three-drug lethal injection protocol. That review was completed on December 27, 2024, when DOC announced a new protocol with just a single …
Article • February 15, 2025 • from PLN February, 2025
Indiana Resumes Executions by On December 18, 2024, Indiana ended a 15-year execution hiatus with a fatal injection of pentobarbital given to state prisoner Joseph Corcoran, 49. Though state law does not provide for journalists to witness executions, Corcoran’s family invited an Indiana Capital Chronicle reporter to join them as …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
With Eleventh Circuit Okay, Alabama Executes Third Prisoner by Nitrogen Hypoxia by Getting a green light from the United States Court of Appeals in the Eleventh Circuit, Alabama used nitrogen gas to kill prisoner Carey Dale Grayson, 50, on November 21, 2024. He told William C. Holman Correctional Facility Warden …
Article • January 15, 2025 • from PLN January, 2025
Biden Commutes Sentences of Most Federal Prisoners on Death Row by On December 23, 2024, outgoing Pres. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D) commuted the sentences of all but three federal prisoners facing execution. The 37 prisoners receiving commutations will now serve life in custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Alabama Shrouds Executioners in Secrecy by "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants,” remarked U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in 1913. Given the effort put into execution secrecy by Alabama’s Department of Corrections (DOC), its death chamber needs a good deal of exposure. On September 26, 2024, …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
San Quentin Brings in Hollywood, Moves Out California Death Row Prisoners by When the inaugural San Quentin Film Festival wrapped up on October 13, 2024, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) completed a star-studded step in transforming its oldest state prison into the new San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, …
SCOTUS Stays Texas Execution With 20 Minutes to Spare by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After granting a rare stay of execution minutes before a condemned Texas prisoner’s date with death, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) agreed on October 4, 2024, to hear his challenge to a …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Missouri Prisoner Executed After Making—and Losing—New Plea Deal by On September 13, 2024, a Missouri judge rejected an unusual request by St. Louis prosecutor Wesley Bell to overturn the conviction of condemned state prisoner Marcellus Williams, just weeks after accepting a new plea deal that the state Supreme Court then …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Competency Evaluation Ordered for Condemned Utah Prisoner by David Reutter On February 13, 2024, the Third Judicial Circuit Court in and for Salt Lake County, Utah, ordered an examination to determine if death row prisoner Ralph Leroy Menzies, 65, is competent to be executed. Menzies’ attorneys argued that he suffers …
Condemned Alabama Prisoner Challenges Execution by Nitrogen Hypoxia by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Citing Alabama’s “bad track record of botched executions,” death row prisoner David P. Wilson, 41, filed a civil rights action on February 15, 2024, alleging that the state’s intended use of nitrogen hypoxia to execute …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
Intellectually Disabled Georgia Prisoner Executed After SCOTUS Denies Appeal by Georgia executed Willie Pye, 59, on March 20, 2024, despite last-­minute appeals questioning his mental competency and the adequacy of his legal representation. The execution sharpened debate over capital punishment in the treatment of intellectually disabled prisoners. Pye was convicted …
Two Prisoners Removed from Texas Death Row Due to Intellectual Disability by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals resentenced death row prisoner Tomas Raul Gallo, 49, to life imprisonment on April 5, 2024, approving an agreement by prosecutors that Gallo’s intellectual disability (ID) …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Botched Idaho Execution Halted by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney   On February 28, 2024, Idaho halted the execution of Thomas Eugene Creech, 73, after the all-volunteer team assigned to kill him was unable to find a suitable vein to establish the intravenous connection necessary for his lethal injection. Creech, …
His Appeal Lost for 28 Years, Texas Prisoner Finally Off Death Row by When sentenced to Texas’ death row in 1988 for a murder committed the year before, Syed Rabbani was a healthy 23-year-old. Now 57, he is psychotic and blind, left almost entirely unable to move or speak by …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Executions Rise in 2023, Number on Death Row Falls by The number of American prisoners awaiting execution continued a decrease that began at the turn of the century, dropping to 2,331 in 2023, a 4.3% decline from 2022. Yet even though just five states executed prisoners during the year— Texas, …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Atheist Chaplain Attends Atheist Oklahoma Prisoner During Execution by In the final hours before Oklahoma killed Phillip Hancock on November 30, 2023, he was attended by a chaplain, like almost all condemned prisoners. Unlike most though, Hancock was an atheist. So was his chaplain, Devin Moss. As the last minutes …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Regarding Death Penalty, Biden’s Actions Don’t Align with His Mouth by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In an 1829 letter, Pres. Andrew Jackson (D) told the Creek Nation of Indigenous Americans that he was speaking “straight, and not with a forked tongue” when he promised those who evacuated from Alabama …
Condemned Texas Prisoner Ruled Too Mentally Ill to Execute by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke. Condemned Texas prisoner Scott Louis Panetti, 65, was taken off the state’s death row on September 27, 2023, when the federal court for the Western District of Texas found him too insane to kill—or as …
Article • April 1, 2024 • from PLN April, 2024
With Push to Empty North Carolina’s Death Row Comes Another to End Life Without Parole by Leaving office at the end of 2024, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) faces pressure from a coalition of 22 nonprofits to commute the sentences of all 136 prisoners on the state’s death row …
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