Christa Pike has pneumonia, unable to move arms after botched execution
Attorneys for Christa Pike, the Tennessee inmate who survived two doses of a lethal injection during her botched execution last week, shared an update on her health condition.
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Attorneys for Christa Pike, the Tennessee inmate who survived two doses of a lethal injection during her botched execution last week, shared an update on her health condition.
Jamaal Howard was executed by lethal injection after his lawyers tried to argue that he faced risks similar to Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee's attempt to put her to death.
Tennessee canceled its remaining scheduled execution this year after Christa Pike, the only woman on its death row, survived two doses of a botched lethal injection. A witness said she was "clearly very alive."
Prosecutors in San Joaquin County said they will seek the death penalty against Wesley Brownlee, who has been charged with multiple killings in the Stockton area and the Bay Area.
The San Joaquin District Attorney's office announced Monday that they will seek the death penalty against Wesley Brownlee, who is facing six counts of murder in connection with an 18-month killing spree. Carmela Karcher reports.
President Biden is granting clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences. Their sentences will be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Jamshid Shamahd was one of several Iranian dissidents abroad in recent years either tricked or kidnapped back to Iran.
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price said her office is weighing their options after a federal judge overturned the murder conviction of a man who was on death row for 33 years, due to prosecutorial misconduct.
Alabama went through with its planned execution on Thursday of Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was the first condemned inmate in the U.S. put to death using nitrogen gas.
Politicians pushed for the nitrogen gas execution method with limited scientific research behind it. Critics say it could amount to torture.
The gunman is already serving a sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole after he pleaded guilty to state charges in the 2022 attack.
Jeffrey Allen Maria is one of four men who tortured and killed Philip and Kathy Ranzo at their Modesto home back in 1979. He was released from prison on Monday.
Alabama would be the first to use that method. A number of inmates agree as they seek to block their executions by lethal injection.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to transform a state lockup that is home to the nation's largest number of death row inmates into a facility where prisoners can receive education, training and rehabilitation.
The Catholic leader spoke about laws discriminating against LGBTQ people, his health and his predecessor in a wide-ranging interview with the AP.
