Capital Punishment
Capital Punishment is a profoundly complex and controversial aspect of the criminal justice system. This section provides articles that explore the history, legal frameworks, and ethical debates surrounding Capital Punishment in various jurisdictions. Correctional professionals can gain insights into the procedures, implications, and ongoing discussions about using the death penalty. Understanding Capital Punishment is crucial for those involved in its administration and those engaged in broader criminal justice reform efforts. For further context, explore related topics on supermax prisons.
Trump said relatives of victims are angry that Biden spared the lives of some of the “worst killers in our country,” including inmates convicted of killing police and military officers
Those whose lives were spared by the move include those convicted in the killings of police and military officers and the killings of correctional officers or prisoners in federal facilities
Kevin Ray Underwood admitted to luring Jamie Rose Bolin into his apartment and killing her as part of a cannibalistic fantasy
Nebraska officials are forging ahead with plans to execute the state’s longest-serving death-row inmate
The inmate says jurors were biased against him because of his sexual orientation
Investigators never determined a motive for the shooting
Kansas’ highest court postponed a decision on whether the state can execute a man because of questions about whether he is developmentally disabled
Ricky Dubose and Donnie Rowe are facing the death penalty in the murder of two COs as they escaped a prison bus
At issue is the case of death row inmate Raymond Tibbetts, who is set to die in October for killing Fred Hicks at Hicks’ Cincinnati home in 1997
Attorneys for a former doctor convicted of killing four people connected to an Omaha medical school began the effort Wednesday to spare him from death
The judge was charged with breaking ethics rules for participating in an anti-death penalty demonstration the same day he blocked the state from using an execution drug
Michael Furman, who was initially sentenced to death for raping and killing 85-year-old Ann Presler in 1990, has been re-sentenced to 48 years in prison
The judge’s move could result in his suspension or removal from office
Alabama won’t reveal its lethal injection protocol until a higher court reviews that decision
A court said it won’t consider whether a death row inmate who removed his only eye and ate it in an outburst several years ago is too mentally ill to be executed
A Texas court ruled that a death row inmate is mentally capable enough to execute, despite a SCOTUS ruling that his intellectual capacity had been improperly assessed
The ACLU is challenging some of the state’s new execution rules, including procedures for determining whether a condemned inmate is sane enough to be executed
Marcellus Williams was hours away from being put to death in August when Gov. Eric Greitens halted the execution
Condemned inmates say that the executions of four men in Arkansas last year exposed problems that should render the state’s lethal injection procedure unconstitutional
Andre Thomas was sent to death row in 2005, after he killed his ex-wife Lauren Boren Thomas, their 4-year-old son and Lauren’s 13-month-old baby
A judge ruled last week that two death penalty opponents who filed the lawsuit lacked standing to do so
Jeffrey Lynn Borden was convicted of killing his estranged wife, who he shot in front of their children, and her father
A court has cleared the way for the disclosure of an execution drug supplier that the nation’s busiest death penalty state has fought for years to keep under wraps
The board rejected mercy for a condemned killer whose attorneys cite a history of abuse and untreated mental illness
The judge granted the request of news organizations to unseal court records in the wake of an aborted execution
Joseph Garcia was a member of the “Texas Seven,” the group of inmates who killed a cop after escaping from a prison
Death row inmate Robert Van Hook also was “troubled by increasing questions about his own sexual identity,” his federal public defenders said
Kevin Cooper is asking Gov. Jerry Brown to allow advanced DNA testing of evidence that might clear him of a murder
Some experts worry the drugs could increase the chances of a “torturous” execution
Austin Myers argued that his death sentence is disproportionate because of the life sentence given to co-defendant
Juan Edward Castillo became the 11th convicted killer executed this year in the U.S. and the sixth in Texas
Juan Edward Castillo is expected to be the sixth inmate put to death this year in Texas, more than any other state
Robert McCoy repeatedly objected to his lawyer’s decision to acknowledge that McCoy killed the son, mother and step-father of his estranged wife