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In the News
Prosecution: State should bring back firing squad executions
A county prosecutor in Ohio has called for the state to bring back death by firing squad since appeals over lethal injection drugs “take too damn long”. Joe Deters, prosecutor for Hamilton County, argues that Ohioans need to accept capital punishment for what it is, or ... Read more
The death penalty in Tennessee is a “cruel lottery”
A recent study has concluded that Tennessee’s capital punishment system is a “cruel lottery” that is “riddled with arbitrariness”. Read more
San Antonio killer on death row denied clemency, despite pleas from victim’s son
Hasmukh “Hash” Patel’s is a sad story, Christopher Young’s also. There has never been any doubt that Young, a Blood street gang member, was responsible for the murder of Patel, in 2004 in San Antonio, Texas. Young fatally shot ...Read more
Why Texas has been forced into the back streets, looking for drugs
In line with other major pharmaceutical manufactures whose drugs such as pentobarbital have been used to execute those on death row, Alvogen could be the first drug manufacturer suing a state that would stop the execution of ...Read more
Pharmaceutical company, Alvogen, triumphant in halting Nevada execution
On July 11th, 2018, Ely State Prison death row inmate Scott Dozier was scheduled to be the 12th ‘volunteer’ to be executed in Nevada since 1976 after waiving his right to appeal. After a decade on death row for the April 2005 murder of ...Read more
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