Tag: Death Penalty

Death penalty protesters arrested outside Supreme Court

Ryan Lovelace · January 17, 2017 5:29 pm

Judge formally sentences Dylann Roof to death

Kelly Cohen · January 11, 2017 8:18 pm

The FDA maintains the 2015 shipment of 1,000 vials of sodium thiopental from India is illegal to import. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Texas sues feds over blockage of execution drugs

Kelly Cohen · January 4, 2017 12:02 am

Dylann Roof, who is on federal death row, will be getting a $1,400 stimulus check as part of the relief bill, according to Sen. Tom Cotton

Dylann Roof ruled competent to represent himself

Caitlin Yilek · January 3, 2017 12:16 am

The trial for Dylann Roof has been scheduled to start Nov. 7. (Grace Beahm/The Post and Courier via AP, Pool)

Dylann Roof won’t call witnesses, present evidence in death penalty trial

Kelly Cohen · December 28, 2016 5:28 pm

The Death Penalty Information Center's year end report found there were just 20 executions in 2016, fewer than any year in the last 25 years. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, File)

Report: US executions dropped to 25-year low in 2016

Ryan Lovelace · December 21, 2016 3:08 pm

The decision to prohibit the use of the sedative midazolam, or related products, now leaves Arizona without an available method to perform executions. (AP Photo/File)

Arizona to stop using controversial drug after botched executions

Kelly Cohen · December 20, 2016 9:08 pm

Kansas' Supreme Court on Friday will hear the appeal of a death row inmate for the first time since Election Day. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)

Kansas Supreme Court to hear first death penalty case since justices’ election

Ryan Lovelace · December 16, 2016 4:51 pm

Delaware's high court previously ruled that the state's death penalty law was unconstitutional. (Jason Minto/The Wilmington News-Journal via AP)

Delaware Supreme Court ruling means no executions for inmates on death row

Ryan Lovelace · December 16, 2016 3:37 pm

Romell Broom was convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl in 1984 in East Cleveland.(AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Supreme Court allows second attempt to execute Ohio inmate

Kelly Cohen · December 12, 2016 10:23 pm

In his dissent, Breyer argued that, "[T]he time has come for this Court to reconsider the constitutionality of the death penalty." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Breyer: Supreme Court must ‘reconsider the constitutionality of the death penalty’

Ryan Lovelace · December 12, 2016 4:26 pm

Justice Clarence Thomas granted Ronald Smith Jr.'s request for halting the execution. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

4-4 Supreme Court split permits execution of Alabama man to proceed

Anna Giaritelli, Ryan Lovelace · December 9, 2016 12:49 am