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Execution of Ohio Man Continues Switch to Alternative Lethal Drugs
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsOhio executed its second inmate with the surgical sedative pentobarbital today, continuing the move by several states away from the long-used drug sodium thiopental, which is in short supply in death chambers around the country. Clarence Carter, 49, was put to death by injection this morning at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. He was condemned for fatally beating a fellow inmate in a Cincinnati jail days after arguing over what to watch on television, according to reports. Carter was the second Ohio inmate to be executed with the single drug pentobarbital, which is used ...
Amnesty International: Executions Down 25 Percent Worldwide [VIDEO]
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Supreme Court Takes Death Row Appeal, Turns Down Campaign Finance Challenge
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyThe U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a bid to further weaken campaign finance laws, but said it would consider the case of an Alabama death row inmate whose previous appeals were rejected due to a missed filing deadline for paperwork. Corey R. Maples, convicted in 1997 of killing two men after a night of boozing and drug use, argued that he had endured negligent legal representation from the outset, including two court-appointed attorneys who cautioned a jury it might appear they were "stumbling around in the dark." During the appeals process, Maples got burned by two New York ...
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 ...
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 ...
Death Penalty Support Wanes Amid Errors and Debate
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyA little more than one generation after the United States Supreme Court reinstalled the death penalty as a sentencing option in criminal cases, and despite otherwise strong support for tough-on-crime laws, capital punishment in America is markedly on the wane. Executions are down dramatically. Death sentences are being recommended less frequently by juries and endorsed less often by judges. And wrongfully convicted death-row inmates in increasing numbers are being released from prison as a result of DNA testing and other exonerating evidence. Today, nearly half of the jurisdictions in the ...
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