lethal injection

National

Federal Judge Blocks 1 Of 8 Upcoming Executions In Arkansas

4:32pm April 06, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

Arkansas was preparing to execute the inmates before one of its lethal-injection drugs expired. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. said one inmate's clemency bid requires the state to wait 30 days.

States Find Other Execution Methods After Difficulties With Lethal Injection

8:09am April 06, 2017

by Debbie Elliott

Nationwide, the number and pace of executions are down, but states are looking at alternative, previous methods after restrictions have increased making the drugs for lethal injection hard to obtain.

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Ohio Gov. John Kasich speaking on Feb. 1. Kasich has postponed the state's next eight executions amidst a legal challenge to Ohio's lethal injection protocol.

Ohio Postpones 8 Executions Amidst Legal Challenge To Lethal Injection Procedure

4:52pm February 10, 2017

by Rebecca Hersher

As a federal court considers the state's appeal of a decision last month blocking its three-drug lethal injection protocol, Gov. John Kasich announced he was putting executions on hold until May.

The death chamber at the Southern Ohio Corrections Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, as seen in 2005. A federal judge has rejected the state's lethal injection drug protocol, postponing three upcoming executions.

Federal Judge Blocks Ohio's Lethal Injection Protocol

2:20pm January 26, 2017

by Rebecca Hersher

The judge rejected the state's use of midazolam, one of the drugs used in botched executions in Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma and Alabama. The ruling puts Ohio's next three scheduled executions on hold.

Ricky Gray is scheduled to be executed at the Greensville prison in Jarratt, Va., Wednesday night.

National

Virginia Executes Convict With Drug From Anonymous Compounding Pharmacy

10:20pm January 18, 2017

by Rebecca Hersher

The execution of Ricky Gray on Wednesday was the first known instance of a state using midazolam, a sedative, that was not manufactured by a pharmaceutical company.

Pfizer's corporate headquarters in midtown Manhattan.

Pfizer To Stop Selling Drugs For Use In Lethal Injections

10:25pm May 13, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The drugmaker was the "last remaining open-market source of drugs used in executions," The New York Times reported. Other U.S. and European firms had already blocked drugs from use in executions.

Anti-death penalty activists, including members of MoveOn.org and other advocay groups, rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in a final attempt to prevent the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip on Sept. 29.

National

Are Last-Minute Death Penalty Delays Cruel And Unusual Punishment?

4:25pm November 23, 2015

by Jacob McCleland

The death penalty in the U.S. is under scrutiny after a series of botched executions. Some death row lawyers and activists say the repeated delays are torture for prisoners like Richard Glossip.

Death row inmate Kelly Renee Gissendaner is seen in an undated picture from the Georgia Department of Corrections. Following repeated delays, Georgia carried out its first execution of a woman in 70 years on Tuesday evening.

National

Georgia Executes Convicted Female Murderer; Oklahoma Delays An Execution

5:37pm September 30, 2015

by Laura Wagner

Kelly Gissendaner was executed by lethal injection Tuesday for her role in the 1997 murder of her husband. Richard Glossip got a delay just hours before he was scheduled for lethal injection.

Politics & Government

Lethal Injection Bill Heads To Governor McCrory

3:55am July 30, 2015

by Keri Brown

A bill that could pave the way for executions to restart in North Carolina has passed the legislature and is going to the governor.

An American flag flies over the U.S. Supreme Court June 29, 2015 in Washington, D.C. This past term, the liberal position won in 19 of the 26 closely-divided ideological cases and eight out of 10 of the most important ones.

Liberal Minority Won Over Conservatives In Historic Supreme Court Term

1:04am July 11, 2015

by Nina Totenberg

The latest session made history on several fronts, and accepted cases for next year that will likely make still more. This year the liberals won a lot — but that doesn't mean they will in the future.

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