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Arizona Inmate Executed Amid Questions Over Drug
By not in system - AOL NewsFLORENCE, Ariz. -- A man convicted of killing two people in a 1989 Phoenix convenience store robbery was executed Tuesday despite last-minute arguments by his attorneys who raised questions over one of the lethal injection drugs and said they had raised "substantial doubt" about his guilt. Arizona DOC / Arizona Republic / AP Eric John King, convicted of shooting and killing two people in 1989, was executed Tuesday. Eric John King's death at the state prison in Florence was the first execution in the state since October and one of the last expected to use a three-drug lethal ...
Ohio Set for Nation's First Execution Using Single Drug
By not in system - AOL NewsLUCASVILLE, Ohio - A man convicted of killing a storeowner was to be put to death Thursday with the country's first use of the surgical sedative pentobarbital as a stand-alone execution drug. The execution of death row inmate Johnnie Baston also would mark a move to make the process more public and give inmates speedier access to attorneys in case something goes wrong when needles are being inserted into them. Ohio Department of Corrections / AP Johnnie Baston is to be executed in Ohio Thursday with a stand-alone execution drug. Ohio has had problems inserting needles in a ...
Death Row Killer Outlives Victim's Dad, Who Sought Justice for Decades
By Tori Richards - AOL NewsFor 27 years, a heartbroken father turned victims' rights advocate penned hundreds of letters and newspaper articles, slamming the California judicial system that let his daughter's killer languish on death row with no execution date in sight. All the while, his nemesis, serial killer Dean Carter, churned out missives of his own in a blog that decried San Quentin's slow mail service, cramped conditions and restrictive visitation policies while commenting on social issues such as elections, budget deficits, school violence and O.J. Simpson. Cullins Family / North County ...
Illinois Governor Abolishes Capital Punishment, Empties Death Row
By not in system - AOL NewsSPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois abolished the death penalty Wednesday, more than a decade after the state imposed a moratorium on executions out of concern that innocent people could be put to death by a justice system that had wrongly condemned 13 men. Gov. Pat Quinn also commuted the sentences of all 15 inmates remaining on death row. They will now serve life in prison with no hope of parole. State lawmakers voted in January to abandon capital punishment, and Quinn spent two months reflecting on the issue, speaking with prosecutors, crime victims' families, death penalty opponents and ...
Pat Quinn Signs Illinois Death Penalty Ban: 15 Other States Where Capital Punishment Is Forbidden
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsGov. Pat Quinn has abolished capital punishment in Illinois. Joined by government colleagues and supporters, the Democratic governor signed a bill outlawing the state's death penalty this afternoon at an intimate ceremony at his Springfield office, the Chicago Tribune reported. The ban comes 11 years after Republican Gov. George Ryan enacted a moratorium on capital punishment that prevented executions in Illinois for over a decade, after numerous complaints of bias and incompetence in the process surfaced. Quinn's signature makes Illinois the 16th state to ban capital punishment. The other ...
Ohio Executes One-Time Neo-Nazi Who Killed 3
By not in system - AOL NewsLUCASVILLE, Ohio - Ohio on Thursday executed a one-time neo-Nazi who shot to death two men and a teen more than a quarter-century ago on the campus of Cleveland State University in a shooting spree that targeted blacks. Frank Spisak, who chose to read Bible verses in German for a final statement, was pronounced dead at 10:34 a.m. following an injection of sodium thiopental at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. AP Frank Spisak, an Ohio killer of three who spent 27 years on death row, was executed Thursday. Spisak, 59, set the Ohio record for the longest time on death row ...
End of Lethal Injection Drug in US Leaves Death Penalty in Flux
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsNow that the one U.S. company that made a main ingredient used in lethal injections has decided to end production, where does that leave the executions planned in death chambers across the country? Likely facing delays, as expected challenges play out in court and many states scramble to find an alternative. "I guarantee litigation," death penalty proponent Dudley Sharp told AOL News. "There will be a slowdown." Chicago Tribune/MCT) In 2003, an average of two condemned inmates each month were strapped onto a gurney and injected with three lethal drugs in the death chamber at "The ...
United States v. Loughner: The Decision About the Death Penalty
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyIn United States v. Jared Lee Loughner, the federal case against the Tucson shooting suspect, the action now shifts from public disclosures about what happened at the Safeway supermarket on Jan. 8 to private conversations between federal lawyers in Arizona and Washington over whether the death penalty should be a sentencing option for the jury. These talks -- between the U.S. Attorney in Arizona and the Justice Department, headed by Attorney General Eric Holder -- are required under an elaborate series of rules in the United States' Attorneys Manual. That federal prosecutor's bible has been ...
Illinois Death Penalty Ban Clears Senate; So What Will Gov. Pat Quinn Do Next?
By David Knowles - AOL NewsWill there be no more dead men walking in Illinois? Following the lead of the House, the Illinois Senate voted today to officially enact a ban on capital punishment in that state. Supporters of the bill cited past mistakes, in which prisoners later determined innocent of their crimes were sent to death row in Illinois, the Chicago Tribune reported. "We're here because we've seen countless examples of the fact that the system has failed," Democratic Sen. Toi Hutchinson said. "This question is not about the people who we know did it. It's about the people who were convicted who didn't. It's ...
Father of Youngest Victim Supports Death Sentence for Gunman
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsThe man who lost his 9-year-old daughter in the weekend shooting rampage in Arizona, a girl he said had a zest for life, said justice would be served by a death sentence for the gunman. "My wife is very forgiving in that regard. I'm a little about the Old West," John Green said on CBS' "The Early Show." "It's a fairly clear-cut case, and I'm a fan of capital punishment in this regard." He said he would not want to speak with the gunman who killed his daughter, Christina, and five others on Saturday at an event for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was critically wounded in the shooting. "I ...
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