The Texas Department of Criminal Justice sued the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday after the FDA banned a shipment of lethal injection drugs to prison officials. Texas argued that the...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalized their decision on Thursday to not allow the Texas prison officials to receive a shipment of lethal injection drugs that were originally seized in July 2015....
JURIST Guest Columnist William W. Berry III of the University of Mississippi School of Law discusses the constitutional questions and unclear future of the death penalty ... The State of Mississippi legislature has recently passed a bill to amend...
Texas filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Food and Drug Administration to force it to decide whether an impounded shipment of a drug used for executions should be delivered to the Texas prison...
California Governor introduces proposal for single-drug lethal injection protocol
California Governor Jerry Brown , on Friday, introduced a proposal for a single-drug execution process. The new protocol would replace the existing three-drug execution protocol. The state would be allowed to determine one of four...
The Methods to the Madness: The Electric Chair, Lethal Injection and Now Nitrogen Gas
JURIST Guest Columnist John D. Bessler, of the University of Baltimore School of Law, discusses new changes in the evolution of capital punishment... Increasingly, US death penalty states are no longer content to have just one method of execution on...
Nebraska lawmakers voted 30-13 Thursday in favor of legislation that would repeal the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment in first-degree murder cases. Nebraska currently has 11 men sitting on death row but no...
Ohio's Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) announced Thursday that it is revising its execution protocol to no longer use the two-drug combination that caused the troubling 26-minute execution of Dennis McGuire last January. Ohio...
Four death row inmates filed a complaint on Wednesday challenging Substitute House Bill 663 , a measure providing for the confidentiality of entities involved in the manufacture of drugs for use in capital punishment by lethal injection,...
JURIST Guest Columnist Lauren Sudeall Lucas of Georgia State University College of Law discusses the constitutionality of the opposing arguments surrounding the death penalty ... Society's memory is short. So, it may be few are still lingering over the particulars...