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Article • March 1, 2024 • from PLN March, 2024
Alabama Conducts First Nitrogen Hypoxia Execution by Alabama killed condemned prisoner Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, on January 25, 2024, the first execution conducted using nitrogen hypoxia, a controversial method that suffocates victims with nitrogen gas and robs them of oxygen. The risks of the procedure are so unknown that the …
Brief • December 21, 2023
State of Ohio v Moore, OH, Motion of Amici Curiae, Death Penalty, 2023 IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO STATE OF OHIO, Plaintiff, v. Case No. B-9400481 Judge: Patrick T. Dinkelacker Death Penalty Case LEE MOORE, Defendant. MOTION OF AMICI CURIAE NATHANIEL R. JONES CENTER FOR RACE, …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Condemned Louisiana Prisoners Lose Bid for Clemency Hearings by The last five of a group consisting of condemned Louisiana prisoners who had sought clemency hearings were shot down by the state Board of Pardons on October 13, 2023. Among them was Antoinette Frank, a former New Orleans cop and the …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Washington Kills the Death Penalty – Again by On April 19, 2023, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) signed SB 5087 into law, ending the death penalty in the state. The state’s Supreme Court had already ruled the death penalty unconstitutional in 2018 “because it is imposed in an arbitrary and …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Condemned Arizona Prisoner Reprieved by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart On June 22, 2023, the chief prosecutor in Arizona’s Maricopa County dropped a suit filed to force the state to execute condemned prisoner Aaron Gunches. As previously reported by PLN, the state Supreme Court issued a death warrant on March …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Texas Death Row Prisoners Challenge Blanket Policy of Automatic Solitary Confinement by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On January 26, 2023, Texas death-row prisoners Mark Robertson, George Curry, Tony Egbuna Ford and Rickey Cummings filed suit in federal court for the Southern District of Texas on behalf of themselves and …
Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Oregon Governor Commutes All Death Sentences by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson “I have long believed that justice is not advanced by taking a life, and the state should not be in the business of executing people – even if a terrible crime placed them in prison,” said outgoing Oregon …
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
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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 • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Missouri Prisoner Illegally Condemned by Illiterate Juror Executed Anyway by Chuck Sharman by Chuck Sharman Depending on who’s telling the story, Missouri prisoner Michael Tisius, 42, got either what he deserved or the last in a long line of bad breaks when he was executed on June 6, 2023, hours …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
Idaho Revives Firing Squads by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On March 24, 2023, Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) signed HB 186, making his the fifth state to adopt a firing squad as a means of execution. Taking effect July 1, 2023, the law allows the state Department of …
Article • August 15, 2023 • from PLN August, 2023
SCOTUS Overrules Arizona Supreme Court, Allows Death Row Prisoner to Proceed With State Habeas Action by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On February 22, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) held that its decision in Lynch v. Arizona, 578 U.S. 613 (2016), was a “significant change” in …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Tennessee DOC Coughs Up Video of Condemned Prisoner Who Severed Own Penis by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD After a month of foot-dragging, the Tennessee Department of Corrections (DOC) complied with a court order on February 24, 2023, releasing surveillance video of a death-row prisoner who cut off …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
Georgia Prisoner Allowed to Proceed on Section 1983 Claim Seeking Execution by Firing Squad by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On January 30, 2023, a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit rebuffed Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) officials who wanted to execute …
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
“Abdication of Responsibility”: Heads Roll in Tennessee DOC Over Botched Execution Protocols by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss A day before releasing a scathing report on the state’s execution procedures, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) fired the deputy commissioner of the Department of Corrections (DOC), Debbi Inglis, along with …
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 • June 1, 2023 • from PLN June, 2023
Eleventh Circuit Won’t Force Condemned Alabama Prisoner to Die by Method He Didn’t Choose by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Once it begins a lethal injection, the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) “will attempt to carry out the execution and not stop until it becomes clear that they are …
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 …
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