executions
Oklahoma Might Replace Lethal Injections With Nitrogen Gas Chambers
Despite how it sounds, as far as capital punishment plans go, it’s actually a pretty sane choice.
Garden Hedges and Gangland Executions: The Life of Britain's Suburban Crime Lords
If you're at a point in your criminal career where you want to blend into the background, where better to do it than behind a pair of fancy curtains?
Wyoming Is the Latest State to Consider Bringing Back Firing Squads
Lawmakers across the country are considering alternatives to lethal injection after a spate of botched executions that involved untested drugs.
The Supreme Court Will Decide If the Lethal Injections It Didn't Stop Were Legal
A week too late, perhaps.
The Drug Behind Last Year's Three Botched Executions Is About to Be Used Again
Everything you need to know about midazolam, the controversial drug involved in three botched executions last year.
Pakistan Wants to Execute Hundreds of Death Row Prisoners ASAP
On Sunday Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan announced that the country would, in the coming weeks, hang all 500 death row prisoners convicted under the country's questionable anti-terrorism laws.
Two Cops Were Shot to Death in Brooklyn on Saturday
The cops were shot in their patrol car around 3 PM—subsequently succumbing to the injuries—while the gunman allegedly shot himself to death soon after.
UN Vote Against Death Penalty Highlights Global Abolitionist Trend — and Leaves the US Stranded
The vast majority of UN members voted in favor of a resolution for a death penalty moratorium on Thursday, yet the US voted "no," with some unpleasant company.
The Dropping of Ohio's Execution Secrecy Curtain Could Have a Wide Impact
New legislation shielding identities of lethal injection drug makers in Ohio could impact other states where executions have been halted.
Pakistan Lifting the Death Penalty Moratorium for 'Terrorists' Might Backfire
Executions for those convicted on terrorism charges are expected to resume in Pakistan soon, but campaigners say that in 88 percent of those cases, "there was no link to anything reasonably defined as terrorism."
Documents Reveal 'Bloody Mess' at Botched Oklahoma Execution of Clayton Lockett
A lawsuit filed by another Oklahoma death row inmate details a grisly lethal injection process that lasted 43 minutes and made a mess, squirting blood all over a doctor.
Utah Could Soon Revive Death by Firing Squad
Lawmakers advanced a bill that would bring back the firing squad to help solve recent spate of botched executions by lethal injection.