Utah To Bring Back Death By Firing Squad

The firing squad execution chamber at the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah. SALT LAKE CITY — Utah — the only state in the past 40 years to carry out a death sentence by firing squad — is poised to bring back the Old West-style executions if the state cannot track down drugs used in […]

Associated Press
By Associated Press
firing squad execution chamber

The firing squad execution chamber at the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah. SALT LAKE CITY — Utah — the only state in the past 40 years to carry out a death sentence by firing squad — is poised to bring back the Old West-style executions if the state cannot track down drugs used in lethal injections. The Republican-controlled state

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Saudi Arabia Carries Out 61st Execution Of 2014

Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia’s strict version of Islamic sharia law.

Al Akhbar
By Al Akhbar
Saudi Arabia

Reports: Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani convicted of heroin smuggling Tuesday, the interior ministry said, bringing the number executed in two weeks to four. It said a Saudi national was also executed in a separate case, raising to 61 the number of death sentences carried out in the kingdom this year, according to an AFP tally. Mohammed

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Cambodians Are Increasingly Being Executed For Sorcery

Poverty and inflation in Cambodia are to blame, economists claim.

Denise Hruby
By Denise Hruby
Cambodia Election

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — It was like a scene from a medieval witch hunt: a victim, accused of a crime that has never been committed, is surrounded by a mob. Terror ensues, before an inevitable death. On a balmy afternoon, Pov Sovann was sitting outside his house in a tiny town in rural Cambodia, chatting with his relative. Like on most days, there

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Botched Execution In Arizona: A Shot In The Arm For Debate On Capital Punishment

The group throwing the biggest wrench into lethal injections is not who you think it is.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese
John Zemblidge

The debate concerning lethal injections and the death penalty in the United States was rekindled when the Wednesday execution of Joseph Wood in Arizona took an hour and 58 minutes to complete. Under normal circumstances, death by lethal injection takes less than 10 minutes to occur. Wood, who was convicted for the 1989 murders of his former

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First Amendment Fight Won’t Stop Arizona Execution

Joseph Rudolph Wood, 55, was scheduled to be put to death at the state prison in Florence amid new scrutiny nationwide over lethal injections after several controversial executions.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Joseph Rudolph Wood

FLORENCE, Ariz. — The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Arizona to carry out its third execution in the last year Wednesday following a closely watched First Amendment fight over the secrecy surrounding lethal injection drugs. Joseph Rudolph Wood, 55, was scheduled to be put to death at the state prison in Florence amid new scrutiny

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Lawyers: ‘Cruel And Barbaric’ US Executions Violate International Law

ACLU petitions international human rights body to intervene against planned executions likely using experimental drugs

Sarah Lazare
By Sarah Lazare
Washington Death Penalty Moratorium

According to all publicly available information, 45-year-old Rusty Bucklew is slated this week to become the latest person in the United States to die by the experimental lethal injection drug implicated in a grisly botched execution in Oklahoma last month. Now a group of lawyers has taken the step of petitioning an international human rights body

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