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A failed execution in Idaho has put a spotlight on the teams of people that prisons use to impose the ultimate penalty on condemned inmates.
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A House panel on Wednesday passed a bill that would put a moratorium on executions.
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Kenneth Smith, 58, died at 8:25 p.m. Thursday, after a slew of last-minute appeals to several courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, failed.
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Smith rarely speaks with reporters about surviving a lethal injection execution in 2022. But he talked with NPR about Alabama's plans to try again, this time with a new method: nitrogen gas.
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What would have been Oklahoma’s first execution of 2024 has been delayed to determine the mental state of the death row inmate.
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Alabama plans to execute a prisoner using nitrogen gas. NPR obtained a Department of Corrections document showing the method may pose risks to others in the room and impede religious liberties.
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Twenty-four executions have been carried out in 2023 — five more than last year, the Death Penalty Information Center says. Meanwhile, 50% of Americans say the death penalty is applied unfairly.
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Oklahoma executed the fourth death row inmate of the year on Thursday morning.
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Anthony Sanchez was put to death for the 1996 murder of Juli Busken.
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Jemaine Cannon was put to death for the 1995 murder of a Tulsa woman.