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.
Steven Petric turned down the possibility of one day being set free and instead wants to take his chances with a jury - again
Michael Tisius, 42, died by lethal injection at 6:10 p.m. for killing two COs during a botched jail escape
Michael Tisius is scheduled to die by injection at the state prison in Bonne Terre for killing Leon Egley and Jason Acton at the Randolph County Jail
A Texas woman convicted of the starvation and torture death of her girlfriend’s 9-year-old son a decade ago was executed Wednesday evening
A federal judge is set to hear arguments filed by 21 Oklahoma death row inmates seeking to block their executions
“Do what you gotta do. I pretty much dare you to give me the death sentence because I’m innocent.”
Wants to stop the state from carrying out the lethal injection, saying that the drugs to be used in the process violate state law
Willie Trottie’s execution was carried out about 90 minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his last-day appeals
Earl Ringo Jr. declined to take any sedative, including midazolam
Missouri is preparing to execute a man convicted of killing two people while robbing a Columbia restaurant in 1998
The executions would be the eighth this year in both states
DOC is expected to implement the new recommendations to make sure future executions are carried out correctly
Group is refuting criticism that they engage in delay tactics and other methods
Gov. Mary Fallin: New procedures to improve Oklahoma’s execution process must be implemented before the state resumes putting prisoners to death by lethal injection
Missouri’s written one-drug execution protocol allows only for use of pentobarbital
Mother of an Indiana college student killed nearly 17 years ago says it is time for the man convicted of her murder and rape to be executed.
The executions of Dennis McGuire, Clayton Lockett and Joseph Wood have brought a difficult subject into the limelight
An Indiana State Prison inmate serving 95 years for murder wants to be put to death, but a judge turned down his request on Monday
Corrections department has been busy with other issues, including questions over the early release of some inmates
An anesthesiologist said he would no longer act as an expert witness for states defending their lethal injection methods
Ohio prison officials were concerned years before Dennis McGuire’s troubled execution in January that the drug combination they were considering would result in “the condemned gasping for air in a hyperventilating fashion”
Paying four times more for its execution drugs from a new supplier
The surveillance camera videotapes have never been made public and their existence was known only to corrections officials
Hospital alleges that it did not know what the state intended to use the drug for, but also declined to ask
Report: Inmate put to death during a prolonged execution experienced pain and suffering before he lost consciousness
Death row inmates Charles Frederick Warner, Richard Eugene Glossip and John Marion Grant are scheduled to die by lethal injection within a four-week period
The ruling by federal judge Gregory Frost will delay executions scheduled for September, October and November
Man had been sentenced to death for the attack on 24-year-old Melinda “Mindy” Griffin during a burglary of her Lake St. Louis condominium
Despite a shortage of lethal-injection drugs, two of the nation’s most active death penalty states have quietly carried on with executions by turning to pentobarbital
No one on the Supreme Court objected publicly when the justices voted to let Arizona proceed with the execution of Joseph Wood
Executioners injected him with 15 times the amount of a sedative and a painkiller between 1:53 p.m. and 3:45 p.m
For some, it’s enough to know that their loved one’s murderer was no more
Arizona execution highlights the patchwork quilt approach that states now take with lethal drugs
