A South Carolina man on death row who had been considering death by firing squad opted Friday for lethal injection instead after another inmate appeared […]
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Lawyers for 'morbidly obese' Florida death row inmate argue his weight could cause botched lethal injection
Lawyers for a Florida man on death row are seeking to halt his upcoming execution, arguing that his obesity and health conditions could cause his […]
Florida Republicans open door to firing squads, lethal gas as they push death penalty expansion
A bill filed in the Florida state Senate would expand the methods by which death row inmates could be executed. Senate Bill 1604, introduced by […]
Florida executes convicted murderer, child rapist by lethal injection after SCOTUS denies appeals
A Florida man convicted in the brutal 1993 killings of an 8-year-old girl and her grandmother was executed by lethal injection on Thursday after the […]
Kurdish Fighters Called a Truce, but Turkey Kept Up Lethal Strikes
Turkey’s military has kept up deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq on fighters linked to the Kurdish insurgent group P.K.K. in the two weeks since […]
Gov. Newsom cut fire budget by $100M months before lethal California fires
A review of last year’s California state budget shows California Gov. Gavin Newsom cut funding for wildfire and forest resilience by more than $100 million. […]