Death Penalty

“Ohio says it’s switching its lethal injection drug to an anesthetic commonly used to euthanize pets as a shortage of the drug normally used for executions has worsened. The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction says the…

Further effects of the recession: “The United States executed fewer people this year, in part because there is a shortage of the drug used in lethal injections and because executions are too expensive in tough economic times, a report released on Tuesday said.”

Continuing reverberations in the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, whose execution by the state of Texas is the subject of increasing controversy: Dorenda Brokofsky, a juror in the case who voted to convict…

The Texas commission examining the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham-chronicled in a recent New Yorker piece by David Grann-has indefinitely postponed a session in which it was…

Ohio Governor Ted Strickland has halted executions by the state until it can figure out a way to make capital punishment less hurty.

It’s a sacred right of the states, guaranteed by the Constitution, that at its whim it can put you down like a cat that scratches someone’s baby too many times. But some states can’t even handle that God-given responsibility! Like Ohio, which tried for two hours…