The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor’s Office, has launched an investigation into the shootings of unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war (PoWs) in Avdiivka and Vesele. Source: Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor’s Office Details: Under the procedural control of the Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor’s Office, a pre-trial investigation has been initiated in […]
ALABAMA (WHNT) — A new filing in Federal District Court is asking the court to stop another Alabama inmate from execution by nitrogen gas, saying that the execution of Kevin Eugene Smith using the method was ‘botched.’ The new filing, made on behalf of death row inmate David Wilson, argues executing Wilson using the current […]
A Louisiana lawmaker is proposing a bill that would allow for nitrogen gas to be used in executions in the event lethal injection is unavailable, making it the latest state to consider adopting the practice after Alabama put a man to death last month through the first-of-its-kind method. Rep. Nicholas Muscarello, a Republican who chairs […]
Feb. 1—State officials are once again asking the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals to allow more time in between executions, claiming the current 60-days set in between executions “is too onerous and not sustainable.” A joint motion filed Tuesday by Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond and Oklahoma Department of Corrections Executive Director Steven Harpe asks […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s Republican attorney general put his weight behind a legislative effort Tuesday to bring nitrogen gas executions to the state, joining what could be a national movement in pro-death penalty states to expand capital punishment on the heels of Alabama’s first use of the method last week. Three states — Alabama, […]
Ohio’s Republican attorney general put his weight behind a legislative effort on Tuesday that would bring nitrogen gas executions to the state, ending a yearslong unofficial death penalty moratorium. Attorney general Dave Yost made remarks in a news conference about a Bill sponsored by Republican state Reps Brian Stewart and Phil Plummer. It would require […]
Russia’s suspected violations in Ukraine include 142 summary executions of Ukrainian civilians in occupied territories by Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion, UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Dec. 19. The numbers that the UN regularly provides on casualties of Russia’s war against Ukraine include only cases that could be […]