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Texas Prisoner Declared Innocent 70 Years After Execution by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On January 21, 2026, the Dallas County Commissioners Court formally declared Tommy Lee Walker innocent of a 1953 rape and murder, 70 years after the State of Texas wrongfully executed him. According to the …
Dissenter Excoriates SCOTUS for Denying Certiorari in Challenge to Constitutionality of Nitrogen Hypoxia Execution by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On October 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) denied certiorari in a federal civil rights action challenging Alabama’s use of nitrogen hypoxia for executions. Justice Sonia …
Article • January 1, 2026 • from PLN January, 2026
2025 Was a Deadly Year for Veterans Behind Bars by With the number of executions nearly doubling from 2024 to 2025, this year was especially deadly for military veterans on death row, according to a new report published by the Death Penalty Information Center. Throughout 2025, ten veterans were executed, …
Oklahoma Prisoner Found Unconscious in Cell Hours After Avoiding Execution by On November 13, 2025, just moments before Tremane Wood, 46, was scheduled to be killed via lethal injection, Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt, a Republican and staunch supporter of the death penalty, spared the prisoner’s life by reducing his sentence …
Eleventh Circuit Overturns 1990 Alabama Death Sentence Over Racially Biased Jury Selection; ACLU Report Shows It Is Still Happening by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 30, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that an Alabama prosecutor practiced purposeful discrimination in violation of …
Article • October 1, 2025 • from PLN October, 2025
Filed under: Death Penalty, Death Row
In the Killing Chamber by Doran Larson by Doran Larson The Texas state death house in Huntsville is a squat brick building fronted by a few square yards of struggling grass and knee-­high shrubs. Gleaming chain link fencing surrounds a concrete ramp that rises to the door to accommodate shackled …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Oklahoma Prisoner’s Execution Was Expedited by the Trump Administration by John Hanson, 61, received a three-drug lethal injection on the morning of June 12, 2025, and was pronounced dead by 10:11 a.m., reported USA TODAY. Hanson—who received a life sentence for carjacking, kidnapping, and killing Mary Bowles in Tulsa in …
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
On Remand, Eleventh Circuit Clarifies, Affirms Grant of Habeas Relief to Death Row Prisoner by Joseph Clifton Smith beat Durk Van Dam to death during a robbery, and was sentenced to death following his conviction in 1997. He has been appealing his case for almost three decades, most recently resulting …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
Filed under: Sentencing, Death Penalty
Georgia Moves to Shield Intellectually Disabled Prisoners from Execution by No Georgia prisoner facing a death sentence has ever been able to prove that he is intellectually disabled beyond a reasonable doubt—an impossibly high bar that no other state has set. It was finally lowered with a new bill signed …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
Idaho Warden Bought Execution Drugs on Roadside by On March 21, 2025, Idaho lost a bid to prevent disclosing its source of execution drugs to condemned prisoner Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. By then, though, a warden deposed for the case had already admitted to buying lethal drugs for the state …
Article • May 1, 2025 • from PLN May, 2025
South Carolina Conducts First U.S. Execution by Firing Squad in 15 Years by After getting the greenlight from the state Supreme Court, South Carolina’s Department of Corrections (DOC) mustered a firing squad to fatally shoot condemned prisoner Brad Sigmon, 67, on March 7, 2025. Another prisoner, Mikal Mahdi, 41, was …
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 …
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