Jul 31 South Carolina Supreme Court rules state death penalty legal, opening door to restart executions after 13 years By Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled the state's death penalty is legal, opening the door to restart executions in a state that hasn’t put an inmate to death since 2011. Continue reading
Jun 26 Jury recommends death penalty for gunman who murdered 5 women inside Florida bank By Terry Spencer, Associated Press A jury recommended Wednesday that a former prison guard trainee be sentenced to death for his execution-style murders of five women inside a Florida bank in 2019. Continue reading
Jun 01 Idaho man sentenced to death for killing wife and girlfriend's 2 children in doomsday plot By Associated Press Chad Daybell has been sentenced to death for the murders of his wife and his girlfriend’s two youngest children in Idaho. The sentence was handed down Saturday after an Idaho jury unanimously agreed that imposing the death penalty would be a just… Continue reading
Apr 04 Oklahoma executes man convicted of two homicides in 2002 via lethal injection By Sean Murphy, Associated Press During a clemency hearing last month, Michael Dewayne Smith expressed his “deepest sorrows” to the victims’ families, but denied he was responsible. Continue reading
Apr 03 Ugandan court rejects bid to nullify anti-gay law that provides for the death penalty in some cases By Risdel Kasasira, Associated Press President Yoweri Museveni signed the bill into law in May last year, and it has been widely condemned by rights activists and others abroad. Continue reading
Mar 26 Assange can't be extradited until U.S. rules out death penalty, UK court says By Sylvia Hui, Jill Lawless, Associated Press For the WikiLeaks founder, it was a partial victory in his long legal battle over the site's publication of classified American documents. Continue reading
Feb 28 Idaho set to execute 73-year-old Thomas Eugene Creech, one of the nation's longest-serving death row inmates By Rebecca Boone, Associated Press He is one of the longest-serving death row inmates in the U.S. who has been imprisoned since 1974 and convicted of five murders in three states and suspected of several more. Continue reading
Jan 27 An eyewitness account of what happened at the nation's 1st nitrogen gas execution By Kim Chandler, Associated Press As witnesses watched through a window, Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted and sentenced to die in the 1988 murder-for hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett, convulsed on a gurney as Alabama carried out the nation's first execution using nitrogen gas. Continue reading
Jan 26 U.S. at front of death penalty debate after Alabama execution uses nitrogen gas, the first ever By Kim Chandler, Associated Press A man who was paid $1,000 to kill an Alabama woman more than 30 years ago has been put to death with pure nitrogen gas, a first-of-its-kind execution that again placed the United States at the forefront of the debate… Continue reading
Jan 25 Man sentenced to death for arson attack at Japanese anime studio that killed 36 By Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press Aoba stormed into Kyoto Animation's No. 1 studio on July 18, 2019, and set it on fire in an attack that shocked Japan and drew an outpouring of grief from anime fans worldwide. Continue reading