Prison officials are unconstitutionally limiting public access to executions in Virginia by blocking witnesses from seeing certain steps in the process, four news organizations allege in a federal lawsuit filed this week. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in ...

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Prison officials are unconstitutionally limiting public access to executions in Virginia by blocking witnesses from seeing certain steps in the process, four news organizations allege in a federal lawsuit filed this week. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in ...

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The Justice Department announced Thursday that it will resume executing death row prisoners for the first time in nearly two decades. At the direction of Attorney General William Barr, the federal Bureau of Prisons has scheduled the executions of five ...

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The Justice Department announced Thursday that it will resume executing death row prisoners for the first time in nearly two decades. At the direction of Attorney General William Barr, the federal Bureau of Prisons has scheduled the executions of five ...

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Three media organizations in Missouri now will have a designated media witness for executions following the settlement of a two-year lawsuit brought by a BuzzFeed News reporter against the Missouri Department of Corrections.

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A Missouri death-row inmate with a rare condition will argue before the U.S. Supreme Court this week that the state’s lethal-injection method is unconstitutional as it applies to his circumstances. The case could result in a ruling that is narrowly ...

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Attorneys for a Tennessee death row prisoner were trying to spare him from lethal injection and they succeeded — though not the way they hoped. Instead of getting the needle, Edmund Zagorski is scheduled to die in the electric chair ...

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Attorneys for a Tennessee death row prisoner were trying to spare him from lethal injection and they succeeded — though not the way they hoped. Instead of getting the needle, Edmund Zagorski is scheduled to die in the electric chair ...

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Zink v. Lombardi (MLW No. 67546/Case No. 14-2220 – 44 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam)

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Bucklew v. Lombardi (MLW No. 67506/Case No. 14-2163 – 17 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Loken, J.)

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Missouri plans to use the new execution drug in less than a month.

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