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A U.S. district judge on Monday ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out at a federal prison in Indiana.
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Read More »Lawsuit calls for full public view of executions in Virginia
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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Read More »Lawsuit calls for full public view of executions in Virginia
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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Read More »A look at the 5 federal death row inmates facing execution
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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Read More »A look at the 5 federal death row inmates facing execution
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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Read More »DOC settles journalist’s execution-witness suit
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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Read More »Court to review Missouri inmate’s execution case
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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Read More »Man’s lethal-injection fight may lead him to electric chair
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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Read More »Man’s lethal-injection fight may lead him to electric chair
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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Read More »Constitutional Law : Lethal Injection – Missouri Protocol – Administrative Procedure Act
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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Read More »Constitutional Law : Lethal Injection – Missouri Protocol – Serious Medical Condition
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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