RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia death row inmate who came within two days of being executed before his sentence was commuted decades ago amid questions about his guilt was granted parole. The Virginia State Parole Board on Monday approved Joseph Giarratano’s release, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported . Giarratano, now 60, was convicted of … Continue reading
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s first inmate execution in 11 years was postponed Thursday after a state court judge ordered a paralytic drug removed from a never-before-used lethal injection plan that also includes the first use by a state of the powerful opioid fentanyl. Prisons chief James Dzurenda called off the execution that had been … Continue reading
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — A woman who was found shot in the Oregon woods arrived in the United States last month from Russia and was having a relationship with the man arrested in her death, authorities said Monday, Apr. 24. The identity of Anna Alekseyevna Repkina, 27, was released on Monday, a week after her … Continue reading
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Attorney General’s office is seeking a January execution date for a man convicted of killing a family of four. Media outlets report that the Attorney General’s office wrote Richmond Circuit Court Judge Beverly Snukals on Thursday, saying she must hold a hearing to schedule an execution date for Ricky … Continue reading
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia officials have signed a contract with a vendor to obtain execution drugs, but are shielding the name of the vendor and the price of the drugs. Virginia joined several others states by passing a new state law the last legislative session that allows officials to keep secret the suppliers of … Continue reading
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — No last-day appeals were filed as a Texas inmate condemned for the shotgun slaying of a suburban Dallas liquor store clerk was moved to a small holding cell outside the death chamber to await his Tuesday evening execution. Gustavo Garcia refused to eat breakfast, but did visit with family members and … Continue reading
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — The only woman on Georgia’s death row was executed early Wednesday, despite a flurry of last minute legal appeals and pleas for mercy from her children and the pope. Kelly Renee Gissendaner, who was the first woman put to death by the state in seven decades, was pronounced dead by injection … Continue reading
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma appeals court on Monday narrowly denied a death row inmate’s last-minute request for a new hearing and ordered that his execution may proceed. In a 3-2 decision, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals denied Richard Glossip’s request for an evidentiary hearing and an emergency stay of execution. The court … Continue reading
ISLAMABAD (AP) — For years, Pakistan did not put prisoners to death. Then a Taliban attack butchered 150 people, most of them children, and the country resumed carrying out the death penalty and quickly turned into one of the world’s most avid executioners. But instead of killing militants, the campaign is largely executing common … Continue reading
HOUSTON (AP) — Texas prison officials have acquired a small supply of pentobarbital to replenish their dwindling inventory of the execution drug so lethal injections set for next month in the nation’s most active death penalty state can be carried out, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said Wednesday, March 25. Four prisoners already have … Continue reading
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