ATLANTA, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court in Atlanta Friday stayed the execution of convicted cop killer Troy Anthony Davis, scheduled to die Monday by lethal injection.
MCALESTER, Okla., June 18 (UPI) -- Oklahoma officials executed Terry L. Short by lethal injection, the state's first execution since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the method was constitutional.
ELYRIA, Ohio, June 11 (UPI) -- A judge in Ohio has ordered the state to use a single large dose of barbiturates to execute condemned prisoners.
DALLAS, June 11 (UPI) -- Texas prepared to resume executions Wednesday after the state's highest criminal court gave the go-ahead in the case of Karl Eugene Chamberlain.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 19 (UPI) -- Florida Gov. Charlie Crist may set a date to put child rapist and killer Mark Dean Schwab to death after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a stay on his execution.
ATLANTA, April 30 (UPI) -- A Georgia death row inmate has renewed the challenge to lethal injection by claiming that dosages of the lethal chemicals are not correct.
WASHINGTON, April 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court, as expected, declined a number of death row petitions Monday without comment.
SACRAMENTO, April 17 (UPI) -- California must resolve its own legal battle over lethal injection before the state can resume executions, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell signed his second death warrant Wednesday in less than two weeks.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court heard argument Monday on whether the way lethal injections are carried out is too painful to be constitutional.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- The question of whether execution by lethal injection is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment is to be posed Monday before the U.S. Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Mississippi inmate Earl W. Berry was scheduled to die Tuesday barring last-minute intervention from the U.S. Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said the court's decision to hear a lethal injection case should not be interpreted as a moratorium on the procedure.
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The clock counting down the time remaining in convicted killer William Castillo's life was stopped Monday when the Nevada Supreme Court blocked his execution.
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has halted the scheduled Wednesday execution of a man who claims lethal injection is cruel and unconstitutional.
