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Maryland Senate approves bill to end the death penalty
Maryland, which has not executed any one since 2005, is set to abolish the death penalty for good within days, becoming the 18th US state to do so. A bill proposed by Governor Martin O’Malley to end capital punishment passed the state senate Wednesday, and the measure is widely tipped…
Human flesh-cooking convict’s organs transplanted
A hospital in Taiwan harvested organs and other body parts from one of six executed death row inmates, in a controversial procedure that could help five patients, local media reported Sunday. Taiwanese authorities executed six death row prisoners Friday, the largest number to be put to death in one day…
North Carolina Republicans undo Racial Justice Act for death row inmates
North Carolina Republicans have sent a bill to Gov. Bev Perdue (D) that effectively voids a law that allowed death row inmates to have their punishment reduced to life in prison if statistics showed that they were sentenced to die because of racism. The governor vetoed a similar bill last…
Mississippi overtakes Texas, executes sixth inmate this year
Mississippi executed its sixth death row inmate this year, overtaking Texas as the US state that has put the most inmates to death so far in 2012, authorities said. Gary Carl Simmons, 49, was put to death by lethal injection at 6:16 pm (2316 GMT), prison officials said. Simmons was…
Death row inmates exonerated nine times more often than other prisoners convicted of murder
US death row inmates are ending up exonerated nine times more often than any other prisoner convicted of murder, according to a new report made public Monday. “The most important thing we know about false convictions is that they happen and on a regular basis… Most false convictions never see…
DEA seizes execution drugs obtained on the black market by Georgia
ATLANTA (Reuters) – U.S. authorities seized Georgia’s supply of a drug used in executions on Tuesday because of concerns about how it was imported, a move praised by death penalty opponents. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents took control of the state’s sodium thiopental, a sedative that attorneys for several death…
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