lethal injection

  • Unprecedented Surge in U.S. Executions: 5 Scheduled in One Week

    In a notable departure from recent trends, five death row inmates across the United States are scheduled to be executed within a single week, marking the highest number of executions in this time frame in over two decades. This unusual spike comes amid a broader decline in both the application and public support for the…

  • Utah Officials Opt for Alternative Execution Method Following Death Row Inmate’s Legal Challenge

    Utah officials announced on Saturday a shift from an experimental three-drug lethal injection protocol to a more established single-drug method for the execution of death row inmate Taberon Dave Honie. This decision, reported by The Salt Lake Tribune, follows Honie’s legal challenge against the use of the experimental drug combination. Honie, sentenced to death in…

  • Reprieve Report Reveals Racial Disparities in U.S. Lethal Injection Executions

    A recent report released by Reprieve has shed light on significant racial disparities in lethal injection executions in the United States, uncovering a disturbing trend of errors disproportionately affecting Black prisoners. Despite comprising only a third of those executed, Black prisoners account for half of the mishandled cases, according to the findings. The report highlights…

  • Georgia Executes Death Row Inmate Willie Pye for 1993 Murder, Plus a Brief Update on The Death Penalty

    The state of Georgia carried out its first execution in more than four years on Wednesday, putting death row inmate Willie Pye to death by lethal injection for the 1993 murder of Alicia Lynn Yarbrough. The execution took place at 11:03 p.m. at a prison in Jackson, about 50 miles south of Atlanta, as confirmed…

  • Botched Lethal Injection Halts Execution of Thomas Eugene Creech, Raises Questions About Procedure

    The planned execution of Thomas Eugene Creech, one of the nation’s longest-serving death row inmates, was abruptly put on hold Wednesday in Idaho after a series of failed attempts to establish intravenous access for the lethal injection. Creech, 73, convicted of multiple murders across three states, including the killing of a fellow prisoner in 1981,…