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Three Death Row Inmates File Lawsuit against Texas for Planning to Use Expired Execution Drugs in Upcoming Executions

Posted by Gracyann Joslin
|Date: January 05, 2023
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Three Death Row Inmates File Lawsuit against Texas for Planning to Use Expired Execution Drugs in Upcoming Executions

By Rena Abdusalam AUSTIN, TX - If it goes through with its upcoming executions, Texas will allegedly be v ...

By Rena Abdusalam AUSTIN, TX - If it goes through with its upcoming executions, Texas will allegedly be violating its own laws and generating significant risks of pain and agony for their inmates thro ...

January 05, 2023
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Alabama Execution Halted Amid Legal Battles, Struggle to Access Inmate’s Veins

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|Date: September 26, 2022
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Alabama Execution Halted Amid Legal Battles, Struggle to Access Inmate’s Veins

By Michael Apfel and Hannah Adams ATMORE, AL — Alabama Department of Corrections last week cited an inabi ...

By Michael Apfel and Hannah Adams ATMORE, AL — Alabama Department of Corrections last week cited an inability to access a death row inmate's veins and time concerns for a decision to halt an execution ...

September 26, 2022
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Tennessee Governor Bill Lee Orders All Scheduled Lethal Injection Executions Temporarily Halted through 2022

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|Date: May 03, 2022
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Tennessee Governor Bill Lee Orders All Scheduled Lethal Injection Executions Temporarily Halted through 2022

By Gracy Joslin NASHVILLE, TN – Tennessee Governor Bill Lee Monday temporarily halted the lethal injectio ...

By Gracy Joslin NASHVILLE, TN – Tennessee Governor Bill Lee Monday temporarily halted the lethal injection of death row patient Oscar Franklin Smith until “third-party review of a lethal injection tes ...

May 03, 2022
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Arizona Judge Rules in Defendant’s Favor to Stop Future Execution.

Posted by Alex Klimenko
|Date: July 14, 2021
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Arizona Judge Rules in Defendant’s Favor to Stop Future Execution.

By Alex Klimenko PHOENIX, AZ - Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Brutinel Monday vacated, and re ...

By Alex Klimenko PHOENIX, AZ - Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Brutinel Monday vacated, and refused to modify, a briefing schedule filed in May that could have resulted in an execution warr ...

July 14, 2021
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Proposed Lethal Injection Regulations Flawed

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|Date: May 11, 2016
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Proposed Lethal Injection Regulations Flawed

By Linda Lye and Ana Zamora On Nov. 6, 2015, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ...

By Linda Lye and Ana Zamora On Nov. 6, 2015, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) published proposed regulations for its new single-drug lethal injection protocol. This t ...

May 11, 2016
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Lethal Injection Déjà Vu?

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|Date: November 15, 2015
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Lethal Injection Déjà Vu?

by Ana Zamora Last Friday, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) made public ...

by Ana Zamora Last Friday, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) made public proposed regulations on a new lethal injection protocol. This triggered the public comment per ...

November 15, 2015
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Eye on the Courts: Can We Acknowledge the Wood Execution Was Botched?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 04, 2014
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Eye on the Courts: Can We Acknowledge the Wood Execution Was Botched?

In the hours that followed the execution of Joseph Wood, Governor Jan Brewer would issue a statement that ...

In the hours that followed the execution of Joseph Wood, Governor Jan Brewer would issue a statement that read in part, "While justice was carried out today, I directed the Department of Corrections t ...

August 04, 2014
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Eye on the Courts: Wrong Us, Shall We Not Revenge?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 28, 2014
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Eye on the Courts: Wrong Us, Shall We Not Revenge?

It was years ago I read about an individual who was put under anesthesia but was fully aware of everythin ...

It was years ago I read about an individual who was put under anesthesia but was fully aware of everything going on around – a terrifying experience where the patient is unable to alert the medical s ...

July 28, 2014
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Eye on the Courts: Reality of Wood’s Execution Confirms Kozinski’s Critique of Lethal Injection

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 24, 2014
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Eye on the Courts: Reality of Wood’s Execution Confirms Kozinski’s Critique of Lethal Injection

Two days after Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, in dissent, unloaded one of the most powerful, poignant, and po ...

Two days after Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, in dissent, unloaded one of the most powerful, poignant, and pointed critiques of lethal injection, a long, drawn-out and nearly botched execution of convicte ...

July 24, 2014
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Judge Kozinski Unloads Blistering Critique of Lethal Injection

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 22, 2014
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Judge Kozinski Unloads Blistering Critique of Lethal Injection

On Monday, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied Arizona's request for a rehearing before ...

On Monday, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied Arizona's request for a rehearing before the entire bench, after the Court stayed the execution of Joseph Wood, who was convicted and se ...

July 22, 2014
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Three Death Row Inmates File Lawsuit against Texas for Planning to Use Expired Execution Drugs in Upcoming Executions

Three Death Row Inmates File Lawsuit against Texas for Planning to Use Expired Execution Drugs in Upcoming Executions

Alabama Execution Halted Amid Legal Battles, Struggle to Access Inmate’s Veins

Alabama Execution Halted Amid Legal Battles, Struggle to Access Inmate’s Veins

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee Orders All Scheduled Lethal Injection Executions Temporarily Halted through 2022

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee Orders All Scheduled Lethal Injection Executions Temporarily Halted through 2022

Arizona Judge Rules in Defendant’s Favor to Stop Future Execution.

Arizona Judge Rules in Defendant’s Favor to Stop Future Execution.

Proposed Lethal Injection Regulations Flawed

Proposed Lethal Injection Regulations Flawed

Lethal Injection Déjà Vu?

Lethal Injection Déjà Vu?

Eye on the Courts: Can We Acknowledge the Wood Execution Was Botched?

Eye on the Courts: Can We Acknowledge the Wood Execution Was Botched?

Eye on the Courts: Wrong Us, Shall We Not Revenge?

Eye on the Courts: Wrong Us, Shall We Not Revenge?

Eye on the Courts: Reality of Wood’s Execution Confirms Kozinski’s Critique of Lethal Injection

Eye on the Courts: Reality of Wood’s Execution Confirms Kozinski’s Critique of Lethal Injection

Judge Kozinski Unloads Blistering Critique of Lethal Injection

Judge Kozinski Unloads Blistering Critique of Lethal Injection

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