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Ohio to Execute Man for Killing Fellow Jail Inmate
By not in system - AOL NewsCOLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio plans to put a man to death Tuesday who killed a fellow Cincinnati jail inmate over the changing of a TV channel as he awaited sentencing for the aggravated murder of a fellow drug trafficker over stolen money, drugs and incriminating documents. Clarence Carter, 49, is to be executed by lethal injection at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. He is to be the second inmate killed using the surgical sedative pentobarbital as a stand-alone execution drug. AP Clarence Carter, who beat to death a fellow Cincinnati jail inmate, is scheduled to be ...
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 ...
Amnesty International: Executions Down 25 Percent Worldwide [VIDEO]
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All Ga. Executions On Hold After DEA Seizes Critical Drug
By not in system - AOL NewsATLANTA -- All Georgia executions are off after federal drug agents seized the state's supply of a sedative used in lethal injections that has been challenged by capital punishment critics and death-row inmates, including a man recently executed who called the British exporter of the drug a "fly-by-night supplier." Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman Chuvalo Truesdell wouldn't say exactly why Georgia's supply of sodium thiopental was taken Tuesday, just that "we had questions about how the drug was imported to the U.S." The sedative is part of a three-drug cocktail used in executions ...
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 ...
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 ...
Unhappy Meal: 'Food Activists' Behead Ronald McDonald
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsRonald McDonald is the victim of a crime -- and this time the Hamburglar isn't to blame. A group of artists and activists in Finland kidnapped a Ronald McDonald sculpture from a McDonald's restaurant and, despite the efforts of police, managed to behead a version of the fast-food icon in a grisly recording shot in the style of terrorist videos. Members of the so-called Food Liberation Army are believed to have kidnapped Ronald McDonald from one of the chain's Helsinki locations after presenting restaurant employees with phony documents, the Helsinki Times reports. ...
Calif. Execution Try Collapses After Court Setbacks
By not in system - AOL NewsSAN FRANCISCO (Sept. 29) -- California's first execution attempt in nearly five years collapsed Wednesday amid two adverse court rulings in as many days and an impending shortage of drugs that made the lethal injection of a convicted rapist-murderer impossible. State officials called off the execution of Albert Greenwood Brown after a state Supreme Court ruling made Friday the earliest possible day that Brown could be given a lethal injection. But by then, the state's entire supply of a drug used during the process would have expired. It was unclear when the state might try again to execute ...
California Forced to Delay Executions Again
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(Sept. 28) -- A man convicted of raping and murdering a girl on her way to school is being given a series of last-minute reprieves -- one because the judge allowed him to pick his own dosage of lethal injection -- from becoming the first person executed in California in almost five years. Albert Greenwood Brown, 56, was to become just the 14th person executed in California since the death penalty was re-enacted in 1977 and the first in San Quentin State Prison's new death chamber. A federal judge placed a moratorium on executions in 2006. Late Monday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reset the ...
Georgia Executes Inmate Who Had Attempted Suicide
By not in system - AOL NewsJACKSON, Ga. (Sept. 27) -- A Georgia death row inmate who tried to kill himself last week by slashing his arms and throat with a razor blade was executed Monday night amid heightened security for the 1998 murders of a trucking company owner and his two children. Brandon Joseph Rhode, 31, was put to death by lethal injection at the state prison in Jackson, Ga. He was pronounced dead at 10:16 p.m. by authorities. Rhode declined to speak any last words or have a final prayer. He was convicted in 2000 of the killings of Steven Moss, 37, his 11-year-old son Bryan and 15-year-old daughter Kristin ...
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