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Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Idaho Cancels Execution Because It Cannot Obtain Lethal Injection Drugs by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott When it issued a death warrant for convicted murderer Gerald Pizzuto, Jr. on November 16, 2022, the Idaho Department of Corrections (DOC) admitted it did not have the drugs needed to carry …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Oklahoma Raises Pay for Execution Doctors From $300 to $15,000 Per Execution, Still Won’t Say Who They Are or What They Do by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Before Oklahoma killed prisoners Donald Grant and Gilbert Postelle in early 2022 [See: PLN, May 2022, p.60], the state told a federal …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Daughter of Condemned Missouri Prisoner Unsuccessfully Sues to Witness His Execution by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On November 29, 2022, Missouri administered a lethal injection at the state prison in Bonne Terre to murder prisoner Kevin Johnson, 37. But his 19-year-old daughter was not by his side. …
Article • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
South Carolina Death Row Doctor Breaks Silence About Years of Executions by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye In an interview published in The State in Columbia on April 26, 2022, a South Carolina physician spoke out for the first time about executing condemned state prisoners — and the toll …
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 • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
New Florida Law Shrouds Executions in Secrecy by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On May 12, 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed HB 873, “providing an exemption from public records requirements for information or records that identify or could reasonably lead to the identification of any person or …
Alabama Reporter Barred from Execution For Too-Short Skirt by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On July 28, 2022, news reported Ivana Hrynkiw Shatara had to borrow pants and change her shoes to attend the execution by lethal injection of a state prisoner, after officials with the Alabama Department …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
U.S. Supreme Court Grants Texas Prisoner Religious Touch and Audible Prayer During Execution by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On March 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) held that a Texas death row prisoner was likely to prevail on his claims under the Religious Land Use …
Article • September 1, 2022 • from PLN September, 2022
SCOTUS Reinstates Boston Marathon Bomber’s Death Sentence by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Clarence Thomas on March 4, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, reversing a lower appellate court to conclude that the trial …
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 …
Settlement Relieves Death Row Isolation in Louisiana: Four Hours Daily Out of Cell, Five Hours Per Week in New Yard by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins In recent years, courts have begun to recognize that extended periods of solitary confinement are detrimental to the physical and mental health of prisoners. …
Article • April 1, 2022 • from PLN April, 2022
Extreme Sentences for Women in the U.S.: An Overview by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh Dye On January 14, 2022, Texas 138th District Court Judge Gabriela Garcia set an execution date for Melissa Lucio: April 27, 2022. That is when the 53-year-old will face death for her 2008 conviction of murdering …
Article • August 1, 2021 • from PLN August, 2021
South Carolina to Use Firing Squads to Execute Prisoners by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders In recent decades, the inability of state corrections departments to procure the necessary drugs to carry out lethal injections and kill people has led to a gradual decline in the number of executions in America. …
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 …
Publication • 2021
Columbia University, New York State's New Death Penalty, 2021 OCTOBER 2021 New York State’s New Death Penalty: The Death Toll of Mass Incarceration in a Post Execution Era (j;] COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Cl IlR IO Ill I U About the Center for Justice at Columbia The Center for Justice is committed …
Article • May 24, 2021
Did Tennessee Execute an Innocent Man? by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Tennessee executed Sedley Alley by lethal injection on June 28, 2006, for the 1985 rape and murder of Marine Lance Corporal Suzanne Collins. Seeley was denied DNA testing of evidence. His daughter, April Alley, believes Sedly is …
Article • May 1, 2021 • from PLN May, 2021
Idaho Supreme Court Orders Release of Death Penalty Related Documents by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Idaho Supreme Court held that Board of Correction Rule 135.06 did not create an exemption under the Public Records Act. The court, therefore, ordered the release of documents about the death penalty …
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