The GOP Plan For Executions If Trump Wins

During the final six months of Donald Trump’s presidency, his administration carried out an unprecedented execution spree, killing 13 people on federal death row and ending a 17-year de facto federal execution moratorium. Shortly after Joe Biden entered the White House, the Justice Department formally reinstated the federal execution moratorium and announced a sweeping policy … Read more

Missouri Executes Brian Dorsey Despite Pleas To Spare His Life

Missouri executed 52-year-old Brian Dorsey on Tuesday, despite pleas to spare his life from more than 70 correctional officers and a judge who upheld Dorsey’s death sentence on appeal. Dorsey was killed with a lethal injection of pentobarbital, punishment for killing his cousin and her husband in 2006 after bingeing crack cocaine, a drug that … Read more

Idaho Death Row Prisoner Thomas Creech’s Execution Is Delayed

Idaho’s longest-serving death row inmate, Thomas Creech, evaded execution on Wednesday because executioners were unable to establish an IV for the lethal injection procedure, according to the Idaho Department of Corrections. His attorneys, advocates, the judge who sentenced him to death and the attorney who prosecuted him have all called for his life to be … Read more

Ohio Is Now Pursuing Nitrogen Gas Executions

Ohio lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday that would allow the state to execute people using nitrogen gas. The legislation, introduced by state Reps. Brian Stewart (R) and Phil Plummer (R) and backed by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R), “is aimed at kickstarting the state’s stalled capital-punishment system,” Yost’s office said in a press release. … Read more

Supreme Court Will Hear Richard Glossip’s Innocence Claim

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Richard Glossip, a man on death row in Oklahoma who has maintained his innocence throughout several attempts by the state to execute him. Glossip, whose case will be heard in the fall, has survived nine execution dates. Each time, his scheduled death has been delayed due to … Read more