All posts tagged "Lethal Injection"

A man convicted of the 1989 rape and strangulation of a teenage girl in Georgia was executed on Tuesday, the first U.S. inmate to be put to death since a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma in April renewed a national debate over capital punishment.

A federal judge in the U.S. state of Missouri refused Monday to postpone an execution, which would be the first since a botched lethal injection ignited a national debate.

A Utah state representative wants to reinstate executions by firing squad in the state. The Associated Press reported that Rep. Paul Ray (R) of Clearfield made the suggestion as a solution to the nation's dwindling supply of the drugs used for lethal injections.

A group of U.S.-based media outlets on Thursday launched a legal bid to obtain information about drugs due to be used in a lethal injection in Missouri next week following a botched execution in Oklahoma.

Three U.S. death row inmates have filed new appeals seeking to stop their executions citing apparent suffering by a prisoner put to death in a botched procedure in Oklahoma last month.

Oklahoma's top appeals court agreed Thursday to halt all executions in the south-central U.S. state for six months, after a botched lethal injection last week triggered accusations of torture.