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Two feuding factions went at it in eight-man tag team action on this week's Ring of Honor.

Arizona ‘refurbishes’ its gas chamber to prepare for executions, documents revealThe corrections department has spent more than $2,000 on ingredients to make cyanide gas, the same used in Auschwitz The state prison in Florence, Arizona, houses the gas chamber. Built in 1949 and mothballed for 22 years, it’s been dusted off and ‘refurbished’. Photograph: AP

© iStock In recent years, many states have moved away from lethal injections for those on death row, and some have moved away from the death penalty altogether. But some states are actively pushing back against this trend, such as my home state of South Carolina. Recently, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed into law a new bill that forces death row inmates to choose between the electric chair or a firing squad, so that the state can resume executions after a 10-year pause.  Some have a...

The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from a condemned Missouri inmate who is seeking to be executed by firing squad instead of lethal injection. Lawyers for Ernest...

After more than 10 years, the S.C. Department of Corrections is ready to get back into the death penalty business.

The AP aims to cover every U.S. execution, one of the gravest procedures carried out by governments, and has for decades because the public has the right to know about all stages of the criminal justice process. The AP often is the sole media presence at U.S. executions, and explains the American death penalty process to the world. Media witnesses hold government officials accountable when executions are flawed. In recent years, reporters have been able to witness and tell the public about ...

By Joseph Brown | The Item May 19, 2021 SUBMITTED PHOTO HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas inmate convicted of beating his 83-year-old great aunt to death nearly 22 years ago was executed by lethal injection Wednesday evening, ending a 10-month pause of executions in the nation’s busiest death penalty state. But media witnesses were not allowed to view the process because of a miscommunication between officials with the Texas Department of Crim...

© Getty A Texas inmate convicted of fatally beating his great aunt was executed on Wednesday night, despite pleas from members of his family to spare his life. Jeremy Desel, a spokesperson at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, confirmed the execution in an email to The Hill. Quintin Jones, 41, died by lethal injection for fatally beating 83-year-old Berthena Bryant in Sept. 1999, after she refused to loan him money. ADVERTISEMENT According to The Associated Press, Jones struck Bryant ...

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For the first time in more than 40 years, media was not allowed to witness a Texas execution Texas Tribune Tags:  Interior of Death Chamber in Texas. (© 2010 Texas Department of Criminal Justice • All rights reserved • TDCJ Media Services • 4616 West Howard Lane, Suite 20) Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. For the first time in the modern death penalty era, Texas did not let the media witness an execution. Repor...