As an Ohio execution team tried to find a vein during an unsuccessful lethal injection attempt, prison staff sought help from a doctor ...
The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether three fatal drugs are used or ...
Constitutional Court chief Valery Zorkin, back center, chairs a meeting of the court on the death penalty in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. Russia's Constitutional Court effectively outlawed the death penalty Thursday, saying that a moratorium on capital punishment should ...
Russia's Constitutional Court extends moratorium on death penalty until its complete ban Russia's Constitutional Court effectively outlawed the death penalty Thursday, saying a moratorium on capital punishment should remain in force until the nation fully bans executions. Constitutional Court chief Valery Zorkin ...
Gov. Perry may decide fate of inmate set to die Thurs.; parole board says he deserves clemency Texas Gov. Rick Perry may have to decide whether a death row inmate lives or dies. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, in a ...
Russia cannot apply the death penalty even after a moratorium expires next year, a court ordered Thursday, in a major step towards abolishing capital punishment in the country. The end of the moratorium on January 1 "does not make it possible to ...
This photo made Nov. 4, 2009, shows death row inmate Danielle Simpson. Simpson volunteered for execution and in recent weeks changed his mind and hoped the U.S. Supreme Court would spare him from a trip to the Texas death chamber Wednesday, Nov. ...
Former Army counterintelligence worker executed by electric chair for killing Virginia couple A former Army counterintelligence worker was executed by electric chair Tuesday for killing a Virginia couple, becoming the first U.S. inmate to die by electrocution in over a year. Larry ...
Moussaoui trial, the first in US over 9/11, surprised everyone, confounded predictions Zacarias Moussaoui was a clown who could not keep his mouth shut, according to his old al-Qaida boss, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. But Moussaoui was surprisingly tame when tried for the ...
FILE - In this undated file photo released by Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, Kenneth Biros is shown. Biros was convicted of killing Tami Engstrom in February 1991. The Ohio Parole Board has rejected mercy for Biros who killed a woman ...
A death sentence against a Jordanian linked to Al-Qaeda over the 2002 murder of a US diplomat has been commuted to 15 years of hard labour in jail, his lawyer said Sunday. "The cassation (appeals) court last week rejected the state security ...
AP News in Brief Mourners grieve at funerals for some of 13 soldiers killed in Fort Hood shooting massacre KIEL, Wis. (AP) — The hundreds of people who lined the main street of a small Indiana city Saturday fell solemnly silent as ...
