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.
Joseph Corcoran was convicted in the July 1997 shootings of his brother, his sister’s fiancé and two other men
Christopher Collings was known to Rowan Ford as “Uncle Chris” after he spent months living with her family; Collings was executed for sexually assaulting and killing the girl
Arizona last carried out three executions in 2022 following a nearly eight-year hiatus
Robert Earl Butts Jr. was convicted of killing an off-duty CO after asking him for a ride outside a Walmart in 1996
Walter Moody was convicted of mailing the bomb that killed Judge Robert Vance and seriously injured his wife
The court said Willie Russell must be re-evaluated to see if he’s too intellectually disabled for the death penalty
Enoch D. Hall was sentenced to die for beating, strangling and stabbing corrections officer Donna Fitzgeral in 2008
The lawsuit said the new rules would bar journalists from fully reporting on the lethal injection procedure
The lawyers said the inmates’ sentences should be vacated because the state no longer believes in executing its worst criminals
The court ruled that a man sentenced to death for the 1991 fatal stabbing of an elderly couple isn’t intellectually disabled and may be executed
Bruce Ward has asked SCOTUS to consider whether he should have been entitled to help from an independent mental health professional before and during his trial
A spokeswoman said the renewed request to the Justice Department will avoid “stressful delays” and cut “excessive costs” of lengthy federal court proceedings
The justices initially gave Keith Leroy Tharpe another chance to raise claims of racial bias on his jury
With weeks to go before his execution, lawyers for Erick Davila argued he didn’t intend to kill more than one person
The sedative diazepam that the state has expires May 1, and the Nevada DOC may not be able to get more
The Arkansas Department of Correction insists that secrecy is needed to ensure a steady supply of the drugs
Lawyers say an inmate is trying to “frustrate” the enforcement of the states’s execution law by raising appeals the state and SCOTUS have already considered
Rosendo Rodriguez III spoke defiantly and never apologized to relatives of his victims before his execution
A judge lifted his own court’s previous order blocking California from carrying out death sentences by lethal injection
Doyle Lee Hamm’s legal team said the private settlement would end efforts at setting another execution date
The ACLU of Nebraska is challenging the state’s lethal injection protocol, arguing that officials adopted a flawed protocol last year without adequate public review
Rosendo Rodriguez is set for execution for the 2005 slaying of Summer Baldwin, who was 10 weeks pregnant
The inmate wants justices to prevent his execution while he pursues another case before the U.S. Supreme Court
The men were convicted of separate killings in Birmingham, Alabama
The arguments came in the case of Jack Greene, whose November execution was halted by the Arkansas Supreme Court
The law will allow the state to asphyxiate condemned inmates with nitrogen gas if lethal injection drugs are unavailable or lethal injection is ruled unconstitutional
Walter Leroy Moody Jr. was condemned for the mail bomb death of U.S. Circuit Judge Robert S. Vance in December 1989
The memo comes after President Donald Trump called for death sentences for some drug dealers
An Arkansas death row inmate out of appeals at the state level wants another chance before the U.S. Supreme Court
If signed by the governor, Alabama would be the third state to employ the method
Russell Bucklew was scheduled to die for killing a former girlfriend’s new boyfriend during a violent rampage in 1996
Russell Bucklew alleges that the process of killing him could cause blood-filled tumors to burst inside his head
Anthony Boyd requested the court to review his case after a federal appeals court said lethal injection and electrocution are Alabama’s only approved execution methods