Texas board recommends death row reprieve
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The Texas parole board Tuesday recommended delaying the state&#39;s first execution of a black woman to give her lawyers more time to investigate her claims of innocence.
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A Virginia death row inmate received a stay of execution on Wednesday, the latest in a series of reprieves since the U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to decide a challenge to the lethal injection method.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Death penalty critics on Thursday asked the Florida Supreme Court to halt lethal injections after a convicted killer took 34 minutes to die from the procedure and witnesses said he appeared to suffer.
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WASHINGTON -- A divided Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the execution of a Texas killer whose lawyers argued that he should not be put to death because he is mentally ill.
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A death row inmate convicted of murdering seven people was spared a lethal injection when federal courts declined to overrule a stay, frustrating the state&#039;s plan for back-to-back executions.
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Lethal injection, when used for the first time in Texas nearly 22 years ago, was touted as a more humane way to execute prisoners than the firing squad, hanging, the gas chamber or even the electric chair. Today, though, death penalty opponents are challenging that notion based on the Constitution's Eighth Amendment, which prohibits "cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review for the second time the death penalty case of a convicted Texas killer whose sentence justices previously overturned.
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OUSTON - In a highly unusual move and just hours before she was to have been put to death yesterday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry halted the execution of Frances Newton, convicted in 1988 of killing her husband and two children.
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By Tony Rizzo, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 13--Missouri prison officials have until Oct. 27 to submit a revised protocol for putting condemned inmates to death, a federal judge ordered Tuesday.   U.S.
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A federal appeals court Tuesday lifted a reprieve that had blocked the scheduled execution of a man convicted in a 1992 murder case in which the troubled Houston police crime lab allegedly mishandled evidence.
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A convicted killer who had argued that Florida's use of lethal injections amounted to cruel and unusual punishment was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly denied him another stay.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a stay of execution for a serial killer who wants to be put to death, but another court order continued to block what would be New England's first execution in 45 years.
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A federal appeals court on Friday ordered a new sentencing hearing for a death row inmate convicted of killing three men 26 years ago.
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After the Supreme Court granted two stays of execution and refused to vacate a third, some say that a de facto moratorium on the death penalty is in place.
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A convicted killer who argued that Florida's use of lethal injection amounted to cruel and unusual punishment was put to death Wednesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly denied him another stay.
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The US Supreme Court is to hear a challenge to lethal injections that has halted executions for months.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A Houston woman remained on schedule Tuesday to become the 24th Texas death-row inmate to be executed this year.