Alabama executes Derrick Dearman, man who killed 5 and asked ... - CBS News
49 minutes ago · Alabama executed a man Thursday who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016 and dropped his appeals to allow his lethal injection to go forward....
Texas execution tied to 'shaken baby syndrome' death is in ... - NBC News
14 hours ago · Texas is preparing to put a man to death Thursday in what would be the nation’s first execution involving a case of “shaken baby syndrome,” a diagnosis that has been re-evaluated in more ...
Texas execution marks latest death penalty case to move ... - CBS News
6 hours ago · Robert Roberson, 57, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday for killing his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, in 2002. Roberson, who has maintained his innocence, would become the...
A look into the shaken baby syndrome case that landed a ... - CBS News
1 day ago · The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied requests to halt the upcoming execution of 57-year-old Robert Robertson, who was convicted in a controversial 2002 shaken baby syndrome case. He is...
Robert Roberson subpoenaed hours before lethal injection. Will …
9 hours ago · Roberson is scheduled for execution by lethal injection at 6 p.m. at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville. The execution could still be delayed if either Governor Greg Abbott grants a...
South Carolina death row inmate dies by state’s first lethal ... - CNN
Sep 21, 2024 · South Carolina death row inmate Freddie Owens died by lethal injection on Friday during the state’s first execution in 13 years. Owens, 46, was sentenced to death in 1999 for killing a...
Alabama executes inmate with nitrogen gas after past lethal ... - NBC News
Sep 27, 2024 · Alan Eugene Miller, 59, was convicted of capital murder in a 1999 workplace shooting spree. He was set to die by lethal injection in 2022, but the attempt was called off.
Marcellus Williams is executed despite prosecutors and the …
Sep 24, 2024 · Marcellus Williams, whose murder conviction was questioned by a prosecutor, died by lethal injection Tuesday evening in Missouri after the US Supreme Court denied a stay.
Alabama executes a man with nitrogen gas for the first time | AP News
Jan 26, 2024 · Kenneth Eugene Smith, a 58-year-old convicted killer, has become the first person in the U.S. to be executed with nitrogen gas at a South Alabama prison.
Nitrogen gas execution: How it works | CNN
Jan 26, 2024 · Officials started using lethal injection to kill people on death row about 40 years ago, and it’s since become the most widely used execution method across the 27 states where capital punishment...