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.
An autopsy concluded that Stephen Todd Booker, 69, who became a published poet while serving on death row, died of acute fentanyl toxicity
Anthony “Jack” Sully, 79, died of natural causes at a medical facility outside of the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center
A council, allowed to meet in secret, advised Gov. Newsom on a $360 million plan to remake the prison grounds as a college campus, with a student union, classrooms and possibly a coffee shop
Tourism is big business in Utah, home to world-class ski resorts and spectacular national parks
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 8-0 Tuesday for the House-passed measure and sent it to the full Senate for a vote
The Republican governor has said Utah is a capital punishment state and needs a backup execution method in case a shortage of the drugs persists
The justices rejected the appeal from Lester Bower of Arlington, Texas
A statement from the Kentucky Department of Corrections says Thomas Clyde Bowling died Saturday due to “complications stemming from cancer”
Legal experts said the move could open the door to legal challenges, or even the end of executions in Alabama
Gov. Gary Herbert, a Republican, said Thursday that he’s leaning toward signing the proposal because the state needs a fallback execution method
Republican Gov. Gary Herbert said Utah is a capital punishment state and needs a backup method to carry out executions if a shortage of lethal injection drugs continues
Formally accused of misconduct over allegations that he concealed evidence during the 1992 murder trial
Cecil Clayton, 74, was executed by lethal injection beginning at 9:13 p.m. at a prison in Bonne Terre
Country’s single-largest day of executions since a moratorium on the death penalty was lifted in December
Spokesman says Governor Wolf’s death penalty moratorium remains in effect
Electric chair would be used if state is unable to execute inmates via lethal injection
Randy Gardner still struggles four years later to talk about seeing his brother’s bullet-ridden body at the mortuary after he was executed
Five inmates on Pennsylvania’s death row want a state court to throw out a plan to use a three-drug mixture to execute them
With a March 17 execution date looming, attorneys for Cecil Clayton are arguing that residual brain damage from a 1972 sawmill accident has rendered him incompetent and he therefore cannot be executed
Texas prison officials are scurrying to find a supplier to replenish a dwindling inventory of execution drugs
The Supreme Court has agreed to review a death sentence imposed by a judge on a Florida inmate though the jury had been divided on punishment.
The House voted 85-10 on Tuesday for the bill by Oklahoma City Republican Rep. Mike Christian
AG: “I believe due process has been satisfied and that the interest of justice has been served”
Scheduled to be executed in early March
Robert Lynn Pruett, 35, will be put to death on April 28 in Huntsville
The state seems to lack the will to carry out executions that were twice endorsed by voters; will that change?
Seeks a debate about “fixing the system”
Executions are on hold while the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether midazolam counts as “cruel and unusual” punishment
Inmates argue that law that shields names of companies that provide lethal injection drugs violates free speech rights
Top prosecutor says death penalty moratorium was illegal and unconstitutional
Called the current system of capital punishment “error prone, expensive and anything but infallible”