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
A 50-year-old man on Texas’ death row who has maintained his innocence for more than two decades was executed on Wednesday, according to multiple reports. Ivan Cantu, who was convicted and sentenced to death by a jury in the 2000 killing of his cousin and the cousin’s fiancée, was killed by lethal injection at 6:47 … Read more
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
NOTE: This story contains disturbing details. Please read at your own discretion. China has executed a couple found guilty of throwing two young toddlers out of a 15th-storey window in a brutal case that sent shockwaves through the nation. On Wednesday morning, Zhang Bo and Ye Chengchen were put to death. The Intermediate People’s Court … Read more
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
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