When Texas executed an inmate without media present in 2021, it apologized for the “critical error” and launched an investigation. The same year, Alabama sparked controversy by only allowing one media ...

The Trump administration’s latest move to revive the death penalty for federal capital punishment cases is indefensible, and not just because it is doubling down on a practice abandoned by the rest of ...

In the 2000 Sound Portraits radio documentary, " Witness to an Execution," several Texas executioners share unnerving and eye-opening experiences. With somber, sometimes quivering voices, they ...

NASHVILLE (CN) - Prisoners put to death by the state have a right to know who is carrying out the execution, the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled. A group of death row inmates sued Tennessee ...

COLUMBIA (By Tim Smith, The Greenville News) -- Two former state executioners have filed federal lawsuits against the prison system's top officials, alleging the executioners weren't trained and were ...

Under the new Missouri law, physicians assisting in executions can sue if any of their identifying information is revealed. July 10, 2007 · Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt signed a bill into law on June 30 ...

Lt. Larry Waldie, shown here in May 2022, filed suit in a case that went to trial this month over claims he'd been retaliated against for reporting gang activity at Compton station. (Jason Armond/Los ...

An Associated Press review of court filings shows executioners who put 13 inmates to death during the Trump presidency offered sanitized, incomplete versions of the executions to judges. Executioners ...

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