Elected officials are not having a collective epiphany about capital punishment, writes John Kiriakou. But for other reasons executions are still going down. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News Will 2019 be the year that the death penalty is…Read more →
(COMMONDREAMS) The government of Arkansas executed two men Monday evening despite concerns from attorneys that the first state killing had been “torturous and inhumane.”
Leg tie downs on the gurney in the execution room at the Oregon State Penitentiary, in Salem, Ore. (AP/Rick Bowmer)
(REPORT) — Texas on Tuesday sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for what it says is an “unreasonable delay” in deciding whether to allow the delivery of execution drugs from India. The lawsuit comes more than 17 months after the FDA seized 1,000 vials of sodium thiopental at a Houston airport.
The execution chamber at the Washington State Penitentiary is shown with the witness gallery behind glass at right, in Walla Walla, Wash.
ATLANTA — Georgia led the nation this year in the number of inmates put to death, an anomaly that’s due at least in part to executions in Texas dipping into single digits for the first time in 20 years.
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As the nation was horrified by another botched execution this summer, a capital defense lawyer in Texas, legal scholar in New York and the former warden of San Quentin work against capital punishment.
