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.
Johnny Johnson was convicted of killing a 6-year-old girl in 2002
“The justice that James Barber managed to avoid for more than two decades has finally been served,” Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said
Jemaine Cannon, 51, stabbed a woman to death with a butcher knife in 1995 after he escaped from a prison work center
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”
Head of Oklahoma’s prison system says little is known about a proposed new method of nitrogen gas execution
Walter Timothy Storey was put to death early Wednesday for killing 36-year-old special education teacher Jill Frey
Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-0 Tuesday to authorize “nitrogen hypoxia”
Walter Timothy Storey is scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday
Bill scheduled for a hearing in a House committee would make death by “nitrogen hypoxia” a backup method of execution
State still has a 24-hour time limit, but the clock will begin at 6 p.m.
Lester Bower Jr., 67, among the longest-serving Texas death row inmates, had been scheduled for lethal injection Tuesday
Donald Newbury, 52, became the third member of the group known as the “Texas 7" executed for the fatal shooting of 29-year-old Aubrey Hawkins
Donald Newbury is set to die for the slaying of a suburban Dallas police officer while he and six other escaped prisoners who became known as the “Texas 7" were on the run
