By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases, officials said Friday. The Justice Department is also reauthorizing the…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that he will not block Mississippi from carrying out with next week’s scheduled execution of an inmate who is suing the state over its use of three drugs for…
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge will decide whether to block Mississippi from using three drugs when it puts inmates to death, and his ruling could determine whether the state carries out its next execution…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — An attorney for a Mississippi inmate is asking the state Supreme Court to dismiss the inmate’s request for an execution date. Blayde Nathaniel Grayson has been on death row 24…
Death penalty opponents will address the planned resumption of executions in Mississippi this week. A press conference is scheduled for tomorrow on the south steps of the Mississippi…
A man convicted and sentenced to death in the brutal beating of a Pass Christian man has been denied in his appeal in those findings. The state Supreme Court on Thursday handed down the decision to deny the appeal of…
NEW ALBANY, Miss. (AP) – A judge has ruled that a man on Mississippi’s death row who says he killed his wife can give up all future appeals and request an execution date. Union County Circuit Judge Kent Smith issued…
The 48-year-old Higgs was convicted in the killings of three women in a Maryland wildlife refuge. He was the third inmate to receive a lethal injection this week at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. Wednesday after receiving a lethal injection at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — The son of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as family members of a condemned Alabama inmate, are asking the governor to to stop the execution of the…
By JUAN A. LOZANO and MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas inmate with a history of violence against women faces execution for fatally shooting his wife, who had feared she would never get out of her marriage…
The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of a man convicted of strangling his ex-girlfriend and dumping her body in the woods. A majority of justices Thursday rejected an appeal by Timothy Evans. He was convicted in 2013…
The Mississippi Supreme Court, in a 5 to 4 decision Thursday, rules "Charles Ray Crawford" can question the use of midazolam the drug used in executions, in state court. Lawyers for Crawford say the sedative won't make an inmate unconscious,…
A legal veil of secrecy could drop over much of the execution process in Mississippi under a bill agreed on by house and senate negotiators. Both bodies passed senate Bill 2237 Tuesday, sending it to Gov. Phil Bryant for his…
A 30 year old man found guilty of capital murder in Harrison County was sentenced to death today.
Today convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death.
The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty for a man convicted of capital murder by a Harrison County Jury.