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Capital punishment

April 2024

  • An arm restraint on the gurney in the the execution chamber

    Black death row inmates suffer botched executions at twice rate of whites in US

  • a protester holds a sign that reads "execution is not the solution"

    Rise in US executions masks deep divide between states on use of death penalty

  • White man wearing glasses and white button-down

    Missouri death row inmate executed despite widespread calls for clemency

  • Brian Dorsey.

    Missouri death row inmate’s attorneys ask supreme court to block execution

  • More than 150 people call on Missouri governor to forgive Brian Dorsey’s death penalty

  • Oklahoma judge tells prison staff feeling strain of execution schedule: ‘Suck it up’

March 2024

  • Afghan burqa-clad women walk along a road in Kandahar

    Rights and freedom
    Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror

    Afghan regime’s return to public stoning and flogging is because there is ‘no one to hold them accountable’ for abuses, say activists
  • The death chamber at the state prison in Jackson, Georgia.

    Georgia carries out execution for first time in four years for 1993 killing

    Willie James Pye was convicted in 1996 for the shooting murder of his ex-girlfriend Alicia Lynn Yarbrough three years earlier
  • a lethal injection chamber

    Three top nitrogen gas manufacturers in US bar products from use in executions

    Move follows Alabama’s recent killing of death row inmate Kenneth Smith using previously untested method

February 2024

  • FILES-US-JUSTICE-EXECUTION-TEXAS<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 29, 2000 this photo shows the "death chamber" at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas. - The US state of Texas is to execute a man on November 9, 2022 who was sentenced to death for killing his mother. judge grants him a last-minute reprieve, Tracy Beatty, 61, will be executed by lethal injection at a prison in Huntsville in the southern US state. (Photo by PAUL BUCK / AFP) (Photo by PAUL BUCK/AFP via Getty Images)

    Texas executes Ivan Cantu for double murder despite protests of innocence

    Cantu used final words before lethal injection to maintain his innocence of 2000 killing of cousin and cousin’s girlfriend
  • The Idaho Maximum Security Institution near Kuna, Idaho.

    Idaho halts man’s execution after eight attempts to find vein for lethal injection

    Warden calls off execution of convicted murderer Thomas Creech, 73, minutes after he was wheeled into execution chamber

    • What I learned about the US death penalty from the next man to be executed

    • Tampa man wrongfully imprisoned for nearly four decades to receive $14m

    • Robert Badinter obituary

26 January 2024

  • Alabama's lethal injection chamber

    Alabama inmate executed with nitrogen gas was ‘shaking violently’, witnesses say

  • Room with white walls, gray doors, and a gurney with straps and wheels.

    Nitrogen gas execution: how it works and why it’s controversial

  • Kenneth Smith.

    Alabama condemned for nitrogen gas execution: ‘They intended to torture him’

  • Smith, who was convicted of the 1988 murder-for-hire of a pastor’s wife, survived a previous lethal-injection execution in 2022

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    Official describes untested 'nitrogen hypoxia' execution of Kenneth Smith – video

24 January 2024

  • White man wearing hat, blue buttondown and jeans holds microphone while other people stand behind him holding signs.

    Supreme court declines to halt first US nitrogen-gas execution in Alabama case

  • The sun sets behind Holman Prison in Atmore, Alabama.

    Canadian firm under fire for supplying equipment for Alabama execution

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