Brian Dorsey was executed at the state prison in Bonne Terre, Missouri despite dozens of corrections officers testifying on his remorse and transformation
Smith was convicted of killing two women in Oklahoma in 2002 yet he claims he is innocent and was 'high on drugs' - prosecutors say he remains a 'danger to society', however
Lawyers for South Carolina death row inmates are challenging the use of the electric chair and firing squad as cruel and unusual punishments, along with a law aimed at resuming lethal injections
Phillip Dean Hancock, the death row inmate who claims to have killed two men out of self-defence was executed in Oklahoma Thursday - he said he hopes to be exonerated after his death
Alabama Supreme Court said death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith can be executed with nitrogen gas - a method which involves the inhalation of pure nitrogen to starve the body of oxygen