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The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit voted 2-1 Tuesday to lift the injunction against President Donald Trump’s plan to resume federal executions. The split decision comes with three opinions with each justice writing an opinion articulating why they believe the injunction was valid or invalid. Judges Rao and Katsas agreed [...]

The trial of three Belgian doctors who assisted Tine Nys, a 38-year-old woman, in ending her life in 2010 commenced on Tuesday in the Belgian city of Ghent. Euthanasia was legalized in Belgium in 2002 under stringent standards, but the defendants are accused of having violated these rules by not insuring that Nys’s condition was [...]

The Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas stayed the execution of death row inmate Rodney Reed on Friday, remanding the case to the trial court for further development. Reed was convicted in 1996 of the murder of Stacey Stites and was set for lethal injection on Wednesday evening. Stites, 19, was strangled, and her body [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday denied both applications for a stay of execution for Georgia death row in mate Ray Jefferson Cromartie. He was set to be executed by lethal injection at 7:00 PM on Wendesday but was delayed while the applications were considered; he was executed at 10:59 PM. Cromartie consistently maintained his [...]

The Alabama Department of Corrections publicly released its death penalty protocol Wednesday following an order from a federal judge. The 17-page document describes the procedures involved with the death penalty, along with information about post-execution responsibilities. The document also describes the materials used for the implementation of the lethal injection procedure, which include the chemicals [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that Arizona does not have to provide death-row inmates with detailed information regarding the drugs to be used in their executions and the qualifications of execution team members. Plaintiffs are seven Arizona death-row inmates and the First Amendment Coalition of Arizona, a non-profit organization [...]

The US Supreme Court denied a stay of execution for Alabama inmate Christopher Lee Price on Thursday. Price was convicted and sentenced to death after he murdered a pastor in 1991. The Supreme Court had first denied the stay in April over the objections of the court’s more liberal wing. Price argued that the state’s use [...]

Supreme Court justices continued on Monday an ongoing open debate over the application of the death penalty as the justices filed opinions in two death penalty cases. In the two cases, Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas believe that inmates are engaging in last-minute appeals as a dilatory tactic; whereas Justice Stephen Breyer, [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday morning to allow Alabama to continue with its planned execution of Christopher Lee Price. Price is a death row inmate convicted of murdering a pastor in 1991. The 5-4 ruling occurred two hours after Price’s death warrant expiration at 12 AM EST Friday, so Alabama must now reapply to [...]

The Arkansas legislature passed a bill Wednesday that would ensure the confidentiality of certain capital offense procedures including the drug ingredients used in the state’s lethal injection. After pharmaceutical companies faced backlash for their drug products ending up in lethal injection formulas, the Arkansas Department of Correction has been unable to obtain the ingredients from [...]