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Texas man executed for role in robbery-shooting
April 26, 2012 9:01 PM
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A Texas man condemned for his role in a robbery in which three people were shot, one fatally, has been put to death. Beunka Adams became the fifth person executed in Texas this year. His lethal injection was carried out Thursday evening in Huntsville. The execution... more » -
Calif. gov mulls change to lethal injection method
April 26, 2012 8:59 PM
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Gov. Jerry Brown is ordering California prison officials to explore using a single drug for lethal injections instead of three, in an effort to restart long-stalled executions in the state. Brown's order was contained in a two-page appeal of a Marin County judge's decision last year... more » -
Supreme Court halts Texas execution
September 15, 2011 10:33 PM
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has halted the execution of a black man convicted of a double murder in Texas 16 years ago after his lawyers contended his sentence was unfair because of a question asked about race during his trial. Forty-eight-year-old Duane Buck was scheduled... more » -
Washinton executes man convicted of woman's murder
September 10, 2010 8:39 AM
Cal Coburn Brown was executed early Friday by lethal injection for the rape, torture and murder of a Seattle-area woman in 1991. It was Washington state's first execution since 2001 and the 78th in the state's history. Prison officials say Brown, 52, died after a four-member team injected him... more » -
Man executed even after he claims allergic to lethal injection
April 20, 2010 11:07 AM
Ohio has executed a serial rapist convicted of strangling a 16-year-old girl in 1988. Darryl Durr recently claimed he could suffer an allergic reaction to the state's lethal injection drug, but there was no initial word of any complications. He was pronounced dead at 10:36 a.m. Tuesday at the Southern... more » -
Ohio executes inmate with 1-drug lethal injection
December 8, 2009 11:06 AM
Ohio has executed a convicted killer through the first U.S. lethal injection using a single drug, a longer but supposedly less painful method than previous executions with three drugs. Kenneth Biros was pronounced dead at 11:47 Tuesday, about 43 minutes minutes after he entered the death house at the Southern... more » -
Lethal injection creator fine with 1 drug in Ohio
November 23, 2009 8:08 AM
The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one - as his home state of Ohio has proposed - as long as the drug works efficiently. Dr. Jay Chapman, who developed the lethal three-drug... more »
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