BATON ROUGE, La. — Lawmakers advanced a bill Monday that would expand execution methods to include electrocution and nitrogen gas, making it one of more than a dozen proposals just
A purchase order for the drugs, first obtained by the Idaho Statesman through a public records request, showed IDOC paid $50,000 for 15 grams of pentobarbital, a powerful depressant that can stop a person’s breathing in higher doses.
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is seeking a pause in executions and ordering a "top-to-bottom" review of the state's capital punishment system. The move occurred after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection.
Ohio lawmakers are back in session with a list of bills to consider, including measures that would abolish the death penalty in the state. Those bills have
the new purchase of drugs to be persuasive that the death penalty could work in his state. it was a working system and the governor had fixed it, for some people that was persuasive, the omaha police union put out a statement saying they didn t want the death penalty to be repealed in part because the system was fixed, the lethal injection drugs would soon be on the way, governor rickets had said so. one of the lawmakers who supported repealing the death penalty said he changed his mind about what pete rickets said about the drugs being on their way, the system could be fixed, the state could get those drugs and maybe it was true, maybe the system could get work and there was no reason to object to it on good government grounds. however persuasive it was to important stakeholders and legislators in this argument, it turns out that governor rickets plan to import those lethal injection drugs from india to nebraska is a plan that is not going to work. if that s how they re planning on f