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Smith was sentenced to die in the separate shooting deaths of Janet Moore, 41, and Sharath Pulluru, 22, in February 2002.

State plans to kill 25 prisoners in less than three years but officials had sought to increase gap between executions from 60 to 90 days

Willie James Pye was put to death by lethal injection in the state’s first execution in over four years last week. Pye was pronounced dead at 11:03 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson after being convicted for a 1993 kidnapping, rape and murder of his former girlfriend. But despite the case’s significance and […] The post Georgia shields execution sights and sounds from public view when carrying out lethal injection appeared first on Georgia Recorder.

In “Death Row Welcomes You,” Steven Hale follows the cases of men in an American prison awaiting execution, examining what they did as well as the people they’ve become.

Creech’s attorneys alleged in their court filing that the execution team had “badly botched” the planned lethal injection.

Idaho attempted to execute an inmate, one of the nation’s longest-serving death row inmates, on Wednesday, but the state was unable to carry it out. Thomas Creech, 73, was convicted of five murders in three states: Idaho, Oregon and California. While serving a life sentence in an Idaho prison, Creech killed fellow inmate David Dale Jensen.

Thomas Creech’s attorneys alleged in their court filing that the execution team had “badly botched” his planned lethal injection Wednesday.

At one point, Creech looked into the room and waved his fingers.

After witnessing an execution at Angola prison in Louisiana, Jonathan Eig writes that he felt complicit in the death penalty. But recent events in Alabama and Louisiana have prompted him to reconsider.

Alabama is poised Thursday to carry out the first known execution using nitrogen gas, a new method some experts warn could cause him to experience a torturous death.