The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay of execution Wednesday for Richard Eugene Glossip, hours before he was scheduled for lethal injection. Glossip has always maintained his innocence and requested the emergency stay...
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UN supports measures by India and China to limit use of death penalty
Two independent human rights experts from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday offered support for recent measures by India and China to limit the use of...
A Tennessee judge on Wednesday ruled that the state's use of lethal injections for the execution of death row inmates is constitutional. The decision by Davidson County Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman came in answer to a lawsuit brought...
Federal judge halts use of lethal injection drugs in Mississippi
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday blocking the use of two drugs for lethal injections. The order was issued in a phone...
US challenges Idaho ordinance that criminalizes sleeping in public by homeless
Last week the US Department of Justice challenged the constitutionality of a Boise, Idaho city ordinance that criminalizes sleeping in public places by the homeless. The federal government's argument relies on the...
Connecticut supreme court rules existing death penalty sentences unconstitutional
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled 4-3 on Thursday that a state law banning executions for future sentences, but allowing them for past sentences is unconstitutional. Writing for the court, Justice Richard Palmer said...
Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday commended President Edgar Lungu for commuting the death sentences of 332 men to life imprisonment, calling it "a laudable first step and a 'triumph' for the right to life." AI...
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday set the execution dates of three inmates who had previously challenged the use of the drug that will be used in their lethal injections. This...
Supreme Court allows use of alternative lethal injection drug
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-4 in Glossip v. Gross that Oklahoma's use of the sedative midazolam as part of its lethal injection protocol does not violate the Eighth Amendment ban on...
Supreme Court rules for inmate in pre-trial excessive force case
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Kingsley v. Hendrickson that force used against pre-trial detainees must be "objectively reasonable," the same standard used outside of prisons. The plaintiff in the case brought an...
