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Read More »Texas execution raises chilling questions
Autopsy: No problem with inmate’s veins in botched execution
The team responsible for executing an Oklahoma inmate failed multiple times to insert an intravenous line into his body to deliver lethal drugs, even though the man's veins were in good condition, according to a private autopsy released Friday by attorneys for Oklahoma death row prisoners.
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Read More »Mo. judge rejects death-row inmate’s secrecy challenge
A Cole County judge has rejected a Missouri death row inmate’s request to force the state to disclose the identity of its drug supplier for lethal injections before his upcoming execution.
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Read More »Drug-maker: Indiana shouldn’t use our product for execution
The maker of a drug Indiana wants to use for its first execution since 2009 says the anesthetic, which has never been used in lethal injections, isn't approved for that purpose and that it only recently learned of the state's intentions.
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Read More »Execution drug source can be secret, Texas AG decides
Texas can keep secret the name of its supplier for its execution drugs, the state attorney general determined after law enforcement argued that suppliers face serious danger.
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Read More »Executions may head back in time
For those states where capital punishment is still in effect — 32 of them — using lethal injection is becoming problematic.
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Read More »N.H. top court confirms death penalty for cop killer
CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire’s top court upheld the sentence of the state’s only death row inmate, moving the convicted cop killer closer to becoming the first person executed in New Hampshire since 1939. Michael Addison, 33, was convicted of ...
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Read More »Mental illness appeal fails to stop Fla. execution
STARKE, Fla. — A man convicted of murdering eight people in Miami-Dade County in the late 1970s was executed Monday night at the Florida State Prison, despite his lawyers’ pleas that he was too mentally ill to be put to ...
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Read More »With bill signed, time to award startup funds
All but a few million dollars of state money for startup companies should soon be awarded to private venture firm, now that Gov. Martin O’Malley has signed legislation that makes immediate, critical changes to the $84 million InvestMaryland program.
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Read More »Groups seeking to halt execution in Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. — Two organizations that help exonerate inmates using DNA evidence have asked the state Supreme Court to let them file briefs to support Willie Jerome Manning’s effort to avoid execution on May 7. Attorneys for Manning asked the ...
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