Tag: Death Penalty

This April 29, 2014 photo shows the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla. after Robert Patton stopped the execution of Clayton Lockett. Lockett died 43 minutes after his execution began Tuesday night as Oklahoma used a new drug combination for the first time in the state. Autopsy results are pending but state prison officials say Lockett apparently suffered a massive heart attack. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, John Clanton) KOTV OUT; KJRH OUT; KTUL OUT; KOKI OUT; KQCW OUT; KDOR OUT; TULSA OUT; TULSA ONLINE OUT

UN: Oklahoma execution may violate int’l law

Washington Examiner · May 2, 2014 10:37 am

White House: Oklahoma execution not done humanely

White House: Oklahoma execution not done humanely

Associated Press · April 30, 2014 1:44 pm

White House: Oklahoma execution not done humanely

Associated Press · April 30, 2014 12:00 am

Nathaniel Batchelder, with the Oklahoma Coalition Against the Death Penalty, places a sign protesting the death penalty on Gov. Mary Fallin's office at the state Capitol in Oklahoma City Tuesday. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Steve Gooch)

Oklahoma inmate dies after execution is botched; second execution postponed

Associated Press · April 29, 2014 4:00 am

Study: 1 in 25 death cases likely innocent

Study: 1 in 25 death cases likely innocent

Pete Yost · April 28, 2014 7:23 pm

This undated handout photo provided by the Arlington County, Va. Police Department shows Jorge Torrez. Prosecutors have urged a federal jury to impose the death penalty on an ex-Marine who murdered a Navy sailor, saying it's the only adequate punishment for a man who has committed a series of sexually motivated attacks. The jury heard closing arguments Thursday in federal court in Alexandria in the trial of 25-year-old Jorge Torrez. (AP Photo/Arlington County, Va. Police Department)

Ex-Marine sentenced to die in sailor’s slaying

Matthew Barakat · April 24, 2014 7:13 pm

Court upholds NC gang member’s death sentence

Court upholds NC gang member’s death sentence

Washington Examiner · April 23, 2014 8:05 pm

This undated handout photo provided by the Arlington County, Va. Police Department shows Jorge Torrez. An Illinois grandfather shook in the witness chair as he told jurors about discovering his 8-year-old granddaughter and her best friend dead from stab wounds in a park where they had been playing, an attack prosecutors say was committed by an ex-Marine now on trial for his life. A jury in U.S. District Court Tuesday, April 22, 2014, heard testimony linking the 2005 slayings of 8-year-old Laura Hobbs and 9-year-old Krystal Tobias, to Jorge Torrez, a neighbor of the girls in their hometown of Zion, Ill., about an hour north of Chicago. (AP Photo/Arlington County, Va. Police Department)

Death penalty case shifts focus to slain Ill. kids

Matthew Barakat · April 22, 2014 10:38 pm

Ex-Marine tells lawyers not to fight death penalty

Ex-Marine tells lawyers not to fight death penalty

Matthew Barakat · April 21, 2014 9:46 pm

Japan frees world’s longest-held death row inmate

Mari Yamaguchi · March 27, 2014 3:14 pm

Report: Global executions up 15 percent in 2013

Cara Anna · March 26, 2014 8:55 pm

Correction: Death Row-Virginia story

Correction: Death Row-Virginia story

Washington Examiner · March 26, 2014 1:35 pm