Florida on Tuesday became the first state in nearly a decade to carry out two executions in a single day, putting to death an 80-year-old man who was the second-oldest inmate known to receive a lethal injection in modern U.S. history. Hours earlier, the state executed a former police officer convicted of the killing of a … Read more
74-year-old Florida man becomes oldest inmate executed in the state’s modern history Source link
MIAMI — Florida was again preparing Tuesday to execute one of its oldest death row prisoners in history, a 74-year-old convicted murderer who is one of three older inmates set to die in the span of a month in the nation’s busiest death penalty state. Dennis Sochor, who has been on death row since the … Read more
HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut prison inmate J’Allen Jones was suffering a mental health crisis in 2018 when correctional officers struck him multiple times, stripped him naked, put a spit bag over his head and sprayed pepper spray at his face shortly before he died. Video of the series of events was released Friday by a … Read more
74-year-old man convicted of killing wife becomes the oldest inmate executed in modern Florida history Source link
A new murder trial is due to begin in September for Richard Glossip, the former Oklahoma inmate who spent decades on the state’s death row and was nearly executed three times before the Supreme Court overturned his conviction last year. Glossip, 63, was granted bond in May and released from prison for the first time … Read more
OKLAHOMA CITY — A former Oklahoma death row inmate who was released from incarceration after nearly three decades is scheduled to be back in court as his case proceeds to a retrial for a 1997 killing that put him on the brink of execution three times. Richard Glossip’s initial conviction was overturned by the U.S. … Read more
Alabama on Friday moved to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward. The Alabama Attorney General’s office asked the Alabama Supreme Court to authorize a death warrant for Jeffery Lee, this time using lethal injection. “In sum, ADOC has not been barred from executing Lee, only … Read more
Supreme Court sides with Black death row inmate in jury selection racial discrimination case – CBS News Watch CBS News The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a Black death row inmate who argued racial discrimination occurred in the jury-selection process before his trial. CBS News’ Katrina Kaufman reports. Source link
The reprieve for the Mississippi defendant split the high court’s conservatives. Source link