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EX DEATH ROW BRITON BACK IN JAIL
A Scotsman released from prison after spending two decades on Ohio’s Death Row is heading back to prison. Ken Richey was sentenced today to three years for threatening a judge who prosecuted his...
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FOREIGN OFFICE ACCUSED OVER BALI APPEAL CASH
The Government has been accused of breaching the “fundamental rights” of a British grandmother sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug smuggling by refusing to pay for legal representation as she...
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Maryland to Ban Capital Punishment
A state general assembly approved a measure to ban capital punishment, which would make the state the 18th in the US to do so. Maryland governor Martin O’Malley is expected to sign the ban into law....
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Death Row Briton Loses Funding Bid
British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford, 56, has lost her appeal over a UK Government refusal to fund her legal challenge against a death sentence imposed by an Indonesian court for drug smuggling. Her...
View ArticleBotched US Execution Leaves Prisoner Writhing On Gurney
A botched execution that used a new drug combination left an Oklahoma inmate writhing on the gurney, leading prison officials to halt the proceedings before his eventual death from a heart attack....
View ArticleUK Judges to hear death penalty case
Seven UK judges are preparing to consider a case in which two convicted murderers have been sentenced to death – 46 years after capital punishment was abolished in Britain. Lord Neuberger, Lady Hale,...
View ArticleCourt stays executions indefinitely after wrong drugs delivered to the prison
Oklahoma’s highest criminal court has agreed to halt three upcoming executions after the state’s prison system received the wrong drug for a lethal injection this week. In a unanimous ruling, the...
View ArticlePharmaceuticals giant Pfizer stops supply of drugs for executions in US
Pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer has said it is blocking use of its drugs in lethal injections. The company said in a statement on its website: “Pfizer makes its products to enhance and save the lives of...
View ArticleEX DEATH ROW BRITON BACK IN JAIL
A Scotsman released from prison after spending two decades on Ohio’s Death Row is heading back to prison. Ken Richey was sentenced today to three years for threatening a judge who prosecuted his...
View ArticleBotched US Execution Leaves Prisoner Writhing On Gurney
A botched execution that used a new drug combination left an Oklahoma inmate writhing on the gurney, leading prison officials to halt the proceedings before his eventual death from a heart attack....
View ArticleUK Judges to hear death penalty case
Seven UK judges are preparing to consider a case in which two convicted murderers have been sentenced to death – 46 years after capital punishment was abolished in Britain. Lord Neuberger, Lady Hale,...
View ArticleCourt stays executions indefinitely after wrong drugs delivered to the prison
Oklahoma’s highest criminal court has agreed to halt three upcoming executions after the state’s prison system received the wrong drug for a lethal injection this week. In a unanimous ruling, the...
View ArticleEX DEATH ROW BRITON BACK IN JAIL
A Scotsman released from prison after spending two decades on Ohio's Death Row is heading back to prison. K... Full access to The Prison Oracle, its tens of thousands of documents, rules, regulations,...
View ArticleBotched US Execution Leaves Prisoner Writhing On Gurney
Clayton Lockett, 38 A botched execution that used a new drug combination left an Oklahoma inmate writhing on ... Full access to The Prison Oracle, its tens of thousands of documents, rules,...
View ArticleUK Judges to hear death penalty case
Seven UK judges are preparing to consider a case in which two convicted murderers have been sentenced to dea... Full access to The Prison Oracle, its tens of thousands of documents, rules,...
View ArticleCourt stays executions indefinitely after wrong drugs delivered to the prison
Oklahoma's highest criminal court has agreed to halt three upcoming executions after the state's prison system... Full access to The Prison Oracle, its tens of thousands of documents, rules,...
View ArticleTennessee executes 53-year-old blind inmate in the electric chair
Tennessee has put a 53-year-old blind inmate to death in the electric chair for his conviction in the 1991 k... Full access to The Prison Oracle, its tens of thousands of documents, rules,...
View ArticleTexas Executes Prisoner who murdered a Prison Officer – despite accepted...
Texas officials didn't dispute that prosecutors introduced false testimony at Travis Runnels’ 2005 capital m... Full access to The Prison Oracle, its tens of thousands of documents, rules,...
View ArticleJapan has executed its first foreigner in 10 years, a Chinese man convicted...
Japan has executed its first foreigner in 10 years, a Chinese man convicted over the 2003 murder and robbe... Full access to The Prison Oracle, its tens of thousands of documents, rules, regulations,...
View ArticleTexas Executes Abel Ochoa who killed his wife and children
Texas has executed Abel Ochoa, a Dallas man was executed on Thursday night for a shooting in which he killed his wife, two children and two other relatives during a drug-fuelled rage nearly 18 years...
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