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Arkansas Supreme Court stays pending executions
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the execution of eight men until March, halting the state's attempt to resume executions in the state after a 10-year hiatus. In issuing its stay, the court overturned a ruling of a circuit judge who al (More) |
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Oklahoma suspends executions pending completion of investigation
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt agreed Friday to suspend all executions [stipulation, PDF; press release] until his office has completed an investigation into the use of a wrong lethal injection drug during an execution last January. Pruitt (More) |
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UN rights experts condemn Iran execution of juvenile offenders
UN human rights experts on Friday condemned Iran's execution of a juvenile offender convicted of murdering her husband whom she was forced to marry at the age of 16. Fatemeh Salbehi was executed on Tuesday despite several reports of flaws in her tr (More) |
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Amnesty: Indonesia death row inmates tortured, denied counsel
Death row inmates in Indonesia have been denied the right to counsel, beaten and coerced into confessions, according to an Amnesty International (AI) report published Thursday. The country has executed 14 prisoners since President Joko Widodo to (More) |
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Supreme Court hears arguments on juvenile homicide sentences, Florida death sentencing scheme
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday on two cases. In Montgomery v. Louisiana the court heard arguments on whether the court's 2012 decision in Miller v. Alabama , which struck down state laws that mandated a life sentence for capit (More) |
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Arkansas judge orders disclosure of lethal injection data
Arkansas was ordered Monday to release information about the suppliers of its lethal injection drugs to attorneys of death row inmates challenging the state's execution secrecy law. Executions were temporarily halted on Friday by Pulaski County Cir (More) |
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Supreme Court hears arguments in capital cases
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in three Kansas death penalty cases Wednesday. In two cases titled Kansas v. Carr , the court must determine whether the Eighth Amendment right to an "individualized sentencing" was violated by the decisio (More) |
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UN rights experts again urge Pakistan to put moratorium on death penalty
A group of independent UN human rights experts on Friday called on Pakistan to reinstate a moratorium on the death penalty after reports of minors being sentenced to death. There are more than 8,000 people on death row in Pakistan, and the UN exper (More) |
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Oklahoma court halts all scheduled executions to investigate drug mix-up
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday unanimously granted a request from Attorney General Scott Pruitt to halt all of the state's scheduled executions to allow for an investigation into why the prison received incorrect lethal injecti (More) |
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UN rights experts urge Saudi authorites to block execution of juvenile Arab Spring protester
A group of UN human rights experts on Tuesday urged authorities in Saudi Arabia to block the execution of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr , who was convicted of involvement in the Arab Spring protests when he was 17. The experts said, "ny judgment imposing th (More) |
Sirhan convicted of assassinating RFK
On April 17, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy and sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted to life in prison after the Supreme Court of California overturned the death penalty in the state.
