South Carolina Adds Firing Squad to Death Row Execution Methods
The 10-year anniversary of executing a death row inmate finds the South Carolina House devising a new execution method amid a lack of lethal injection drugs.
New DNA Test Casts Doubt on Guilty Verdict and Execution of Black Man in 2017
Ledell Lee was sentenced to death and executed, but an ACLU-sponsored DNA test revealed that prints on the murder weapon didn’t match.
MLK III Asks Alabama Gov. To Stop Execution Of Man Convicted Of Killing 3 Cops
Attorneys representing Nathaniel Woods insist that he is innocent, emphasizing that another defendant had confessed to acting alone.
Federal Government Resumes Capital Punishment, 5 Scheduled To Be Executed
The five people will be executed using pentobarbital, which replaces the three-drug procedure previously used in federal executions.
John William King Executed By Injection In Connection To The Dragging Death Of James Byrd Jr
John William King, the second person executed in the 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr., was pronounced dead at 7:08 p.m. CDT on Wednesday.
Racist Who Killed Black Man By Dragging Him Behind Pickup In 1998 To Be Executed This Week
John William King, 44, one of three men convicted in the 1998 murder of James Byrd, Jr., will be put to death on Wednesday.