Trump calls off plan to livestream Fort Hood shooter's execution
"He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed," President Trump wrote on Truth Social.
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"He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed," President Trump wrote on Truth Social.
President Trump said he approved of livestreaming the execution, but suggested the decision may not be final.
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.
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."
Jamshid Shamahd was one of several Iranian dissidents abroad in recent years either tricked or kidnapped back to Iran.
A death row inmate in Alabama was executed on Thursday, Jan. 25, using nitrogen gas. It marked the first U.S. execution carried out this way.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said he expects to see nitrogen hypoxia used in more executions.
Politicians pushed for the nitrogen gas execution method with limited scientific research behind it. Critics say it could amount to torture.
An advisory council says California Gov. Gavin Newsom should slash by at least a third the cost of his $360 million plan to build a campus with classrooms in the notorious San Quentin State Prison.
Alabama, Oklahoma and Mississippi have OK'd nitrogen hypoxia as an execution method but no state has tried to use it. More litigation over the issue is seen as likely.
Alabama would be the first to use that method. A number of inmates agree as they seek to block their executions by lethal injection.
Amber McLaughlin, 49, was convicted of stalking and killing a former girlfriend, then dumping the body near the Mississippi River in St. Louis.
McLaughlin is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for killing a former girlfriend in 2003.
Gov. Gavin Newsom sought to end a long-running federal lawsuit challenging California's lethal injection process on Friday, arguing that it is no longer valid because of his moratorium on executions.
The California Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over whether to block a voter-approved measure to speed up executions.
California has long been what one expert calls a "symbolic death penalty state," one of 12 that has capital punishment on the books but has not executed anyone in more than a decade.
State officials were told in August that one of the two drugs that make up a cocktail in Nevada's lethal injection has expired, and the pharmaceutical company that produces it refuses on principle to give the state any more.
There have been just two executions since May 1 and the total for 2016 probably will hit a 25-year low.
A federal judge has blocked the importation of a drug used in executions on grounds the Food and Drug Administration ignored the law by allowing it into this country.
A California state assembly committee today discussed whether the death penalty should be replaced with life in prison without parole.
A federal judge who halted lethal injections in California over concerns that it was cruel and unusual punishment plans to tour the state's new death chamber in February.
