The state of Utah just reinstated execution by firing squads by way of a bill signed Monday, CNN reports. Gov. Gary R. Herbert, who signed…
The state of Georgia executed a 54-year-old mentally disabled man Tuesday for killing a fellow inmate after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review his…
On Friday the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case brought by 3 men on Oklahoma’s death row. They don’t want to die by…
UPDATE: Virginia lawmakers are expected to vote on the “electric chair bill” that would make electrocution the option if the Department of Correction’s lethal injection supply runs low. The bill, HB1052, passed in committee and the House and will head to the Senate for a vote this week. The “Washington Post” reports, that if this bill passes […]
Under Virginia law, persons sentenced to death have the right to choose their execution. The prisoners’ choice is by either electrocution or lethal injection. A House committee killed HB942 which would remove electrocution as a manner of execution for prisoners sentenced to death. If legal injection drugs are not available the prisoner will automatically die by […]
The Georgia State pardon’s board has denied a last minute clemency plea for Troy Davis. Davis will die by lethal injection tonight at 7. Davia was convicted and sentenced death for the killing of an 0ff-duty Savannah officer, Mark MacPhail. The shooting happened on August 19, 1989. From CBS: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/20/national/main20108745.shtml
