Judge Halts 1st US Execution of Female Inmate in 67 Years

(AP) — A judge has halted the U.S ... was set to be executed Tuesday at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, temporarily blocks the federal Bureau of Prisons from moving forward with ... Read More

Federal judge halts execution of Michael Tisius for hearing on juror’s literacy

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - 42-year-old Michael Tisius, who was scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday, has received a stay of execution from a federal judge after discovering last month ... Read More

Supreme Court Sanctions Eighth Federal Execution Under Trump

FILE - This Aug. 28, 2020, file photo shows the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind. Orlando Hall, a federal inmate who killed a Texas teenage, is set to be executed at the prison on Thursday, ... Read More

US judge halts federal executions hours before resumption

A US district judge has ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out at a federal prison in Indiana. The administration is ... Read More

Top US court halts Texas execution of inmate seeking pastor's touch

Texas in 2019 changed policy to say chaplains can only be in the witness chamber The US Supreme Court has stayed the execution of ... however, a federal judge rejected Ramirez's request for ... Read More

Federal Judge Halts Missouri Execution of Man Convicted in Jail Break Killings

(AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ... U.S. District Judge Stephen Bough ruled that Michael Andrew Tisius' execution at the state prison in Bonne Terre should be delayed to give the court ... Read More

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Read the latest national and world news, including stories from Newsday's reporters in Washington, D.C. Young brother and sister dead, several hurt when vehicle crashes into Michigan birthday ... Read More

‘Suck it up’: Oklahoma judge has no sympathy for executioners’ stress

including mock executions. According to The Frontier, Judge Lumpkin told the state officials to “man up”, adding, “We set a reasonable amount of time to start this out and y’all keep ... Read More

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Having a team in the world’s richest sports competition might alter how people think of Luton, a place long dogged by a ramshackle image and links to extremism. The administration’s top drug ... Read More

Idaho halts execution attempt after failing to find prisoner's vein

"This is what happens when unknown individuals with unknown training are assigned to carry out an execution," the Federal Defender Service of Idaho said. "This is precisely the kind of mishap we ... Read More

Executions in the U.S., by State

The execution of an Alabama prisoner on Jan. 25 involved the first new death penalty method employed in decades and the first execution in the U.S. of 2024. Kenneth Eugene Smith – who was ... Read More

How many countries still have the death penalty, and how many people are executed?

The organisation believes that China is the world's leading executioner, killing thousands of people every year. But because China does not release details about its use of the death penalty ... Read More