Reprieve, an anti-death penalty organization, just released a horrifying report detailing the pattern of botched lethal injections which disproportionately affected a certain demographic of inmates: Want to take a guess who? It’s Black folks.
In April 2021, the state attorney general s office entered into an agreement with attorneys for death row prisoners to suspend executions. | World News
With supply issues leaving states grappling to get their hands on lethal drugs, some are turning to alternative and highly controversial execution methods. Michelle Del Rey reports
Louisiana's infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved to lethal injections as the sole method to carry out capital punishment.
Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals are expected to argue to the South Carolina Supreme Court that the state's old electric chair and new firing squad are cruel and unusual punishments. Attorneys for the inmates also plan to argue Tuesday that a 2023 law meant to allow lethal injections to restart keeps secret too many details about the new drug and protocol used to kill prisoners. In the balance are the death sentences of 33 inmates who are on South Carolina's death row.