Lethal Injection

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Willie James Pye, theGrio.com
March 20, 2024
Willie James Pye, 59, is scheduled to be the first person executed in Georgia since January 2020.
January 6, 2023
Texas’ top criminal appeals court has barred a civil court judge from issuing any orders in a lawsuit by three…
January 5, 2023
Texas plans to use expired and unsafe drugs to carry out executions early this year in violation of state law,…
December 30, 2022
According to an independent review released Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022, Tennessee has not complied with its own lethal injection protocol…
May 14, 2022
At least two people connected to a delayed Tennessee execution knew the lethal injection drugs hadn't undergone some required testing, records…
May 5, 2022
Stanton, a highly experienced and trusted attorney at Butler Snow LLP, takes the helm in Tennessee's lethal injection investigation.
May 2, 2019
Scotty Garnell Morrow, 52, is set to receive the injection at the state prison in Jackson after being charged with…
October 20, 2017
On Thursday, an Alabama man who was accused of killing a cop in 1997 was put to death via lethal…
November 19, 2015
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate was executed Wednesday for setting a fire that killed his 18-month-old daughter and…
May 27, 2014
NBC News -- The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a law used by Florida and other states that set…
May 23, 2014
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As the rest of the nation debates the feasibility and humanity of lethal injections against a…
May 19, 2014
NBC News -- A Georgia law that shrouds lethal-injection drugs in secrecy was upheld by the state's highest court on…
May 14, 2014
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court halted a convicted Texas killer's scheduled execution Tuesday so his attorneys can…
May 8, 2014
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's attorney general has agreed to a six-month stay of execution for a death row inmate…
May 2, 2014
AP - Some of the three drugs used in a botched Oklahoma execution this week didn't enter the inmate's system…
April 30, 2014
McALESTER, Oklahoma (AP) — Oklahoma prison officials halted an inmate's execution after a new drug combination left the man writhing…
March 19, 2014
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma court on Tuesday rescheduled a pair of executions set for this week and next…
August 5, 2013
STARKE, Florida (AP) - Lawyers for 65-year-old John Errol Ferguson contend their client is mentally ill and has suffered from…
August 2, 2013
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The nation's most active death penalty state is running out of its execution drug...
July 15, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Hundreds of protesters are expected to rally across Georgia later today in support of an African-American death-row…