Wendy Offredo

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An attorney for Nebraska death row inmate Michael Ryan has filed a motion seeking to have his death sentence commuted to life without parole. The motion filed Monday in Richardson County District Court says Nebraska's lethal injection ...  

A drug addict who killed a mate by injecting him with his methadone has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. David Clement Bielawski, 47, unemployed, appeared in the High Court at New Plymouth yesterday before Justice Heath who convicted him of the manslaughter ...  

If 65-year-old Robert Brian Waterhouse dies by lethal injection on Wednesday, he will have been on death row longer than any of the 276 people eventually executed by the state. Only 18 of the current 395 inmates on death row have been there longer.  

PARCHMAN — Without uttering any last words, Edwin Turner died by lethal injection today. Turner was convicted of capital murder in the Dec. 12, 1995, shooting deaths of Eddie Brook, a store clerk at Mims Turkey Village Truck Stop, and prison ...  

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - A twice-convicted murderer who has lived on Florida's death row for more than three decades is scheduled to die by lethal injection this week for killing a St. Petersburg mother - but like many executions, why he is being ...  

The Georgia pardons board has denied clemency for a death row inmate who has refused to file appeals that would likely delay his lethal injection for years. Board of Pardons and Paroles spokesman Steve Hayes said the board issued the decision on ...  

COLUMBUS - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday added another wrinkle to Ohio's debate over how strictly the state's lethal injection procedures should be followed. The court without comment refused to allow the execution of condemned killer Charles ...  

Edwin Hart Turner, 38, was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m. at the State Penitentiary at Parchman, executed by lethal injection for the 1995 slayings of store clerk Eddie Brooks and prison guard Everett Curry during two alcohol-and drug-fueled robberies.  

Edwin Hart Turner made no last statement before his execution, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported. He was given a lethal injection in the state prison in Parchman and pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m. CST. Turner was convicted of shooting Eddie Brooks ...  

The three men involved in the suit have a grave interest in the outcome of the case because they each have been sentenced to death by lethal injection. Moorman is next to take his place on the lethal injection gurney. His date of execution has been set for ...  

Willoughby pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of murder in the lethal injection death of her stepfather, Billy Junior Shaw, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. She will have to serve at least 15 years of her sentence before being considered for parole ...  

Yet Texas has only sufficient quantities in its stores of pentobarbital – the middle drug of the triple lethal injection – to serve in six more executions. That number of executions are scheduled to take place on the state's books over the next four months.  

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Twenty-one death row inmates asked a U.S. judge to order the Food and Drug Administration to block importation and use of a drug administered in executions, saying the anesthesia for lethal injections hasn’t been properly ...  

The lethal injection room at the San Quentin State Prison. In 1978, California voters overwhelmingly approved the Briggs Death Penalty Initiative that vastly expanded the number of crimes punishable by death. The sponsors of the proposition ...  

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah prosecutors have reluctantly allowed a condemned killer to seek execution by firing squad rather than by lethal injection, saying they want to avoid further delays in putting him to death. The request by Michael ...