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At the request of state authorities, U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick agreed to impose a 12-month extension in an order temporarily staying all executions in Louisiana

Ohio moved a condemned killer to the state death house Tuesday as officials began preparations for the state’s first execution in several months

Curtis Green and two other inmates overpowered and attacked an officer in the Orangeburg County detention center and escaped on May 19

Officers were hit with tray cart handles, punched and one even found himself held in a bear hug inside a cell

Christopher Young’s execution would be the eighth this year in Texas, one more than all of last year in the nation’s busiest capital punishment state

The building has been vacant since last year, when inmates rioted, taking staffers hostage and killing CO Steven Floyd

A disturbance at the jail last month that a spokesman downplayed as one person acting up was in fact a protest by dozens of prisoners

More than 100 inmates were involved in the riot at the Sierra Conservation Center, officials said

A lawsuit challenging the state’s lethal injection protocols has blocked Louisiana from carrying out any death sentences since 2014

Hours before he was to be put to death, Scott Dozier was spared execution Wednesday when a Nevada judge granted an injunction