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Ohio to Execute Man for Killing Fellow Jail Inmate

Apr 12th 2011 – 7:35AM
AP

AP

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio plans to put a man to death Tuesday who killed a fellow Cincinnati jail inmate over the changing of a TV channel as he awaited sentencing for the aggravated murder of a fellow drug trafficker over stolen money, drugs and incriminating documents. Clarence Carter, 49, is to be executed by lethal...

Arizona Inmate Executed Amid Questions Over Drug

Mar 29th 2011 – 2:26PM
AP

AP

FLORENCE, Ariz. -- A man convicted of killing two people in a 1989 Phoenix convenience store robbery was executed Tuesday despite last-minute arguments by his attorneys who raised questions over one of the lethal injection drugs and said they had raised "substantial doubt" about his guilt. Arizona DOC / Arizona...

Amnesty International: Executions Down 25 Percent Worldwide [VIDEO]

Mar 29th 2011 – 12:28PM
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AFP / Getty Images

All Ga. Executions On Hold After DEA Seizes Critical Drug

Mar 16th 2011 – 1:17PM

ATLANTA -- All Georgia executions are off after federal drug agents seized the state's supply of a sedative used in lethal injections that has been challenged by capital punishment critics and death-row inmates, including a man recently executed who called the British exporter of the drug a "fly-by-night supplier." Drug...

Ohio Set for Nation's First Execution Using Single Drug

Mar 10th 2011 – 6:44AM
AP

AP

LUCASVILLE, Ohio - A man convicted of killing a storeowner was to be put to death Thursday with the country's first use of the surgical sedative pentobarbital as a stand-alone execution drug. The execution of death row inmate Johnnie Baston also would mark a move to make the process more public and give inmates speedier...

Background on execution

Capital punishment, the death penalty, death sentence, or execution is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.

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