Moody killed a federal judge at his home in Alabama and a civil rights attorney at his office in Georgia. He would be the oldest U.S. inmate executed since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada officials say some drugs obtained for a planned lethal injection will expire before the state Supreme Court decides whether they can be used.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Some drugs obtained for the first lethal injection in Nevada since 2006 will expire before the state Supreme Court decides whether to approve their use, officials said Friday.
Trump traveled to New Hampshire on Monday to outline his plans to combat opioid addiction. New Hampshire's death rate from opioid overdoses is twice the national average.
After having trouble obtaining drugs needed for lethal injections, state officials plan to change the primary method of execution to nitrogen gas inhalation. It would be a first for a U.S. state.
Nikolas Cruz, 19, has already been charged with 17 counts of murder in the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Public defenders had sought to avoid a trial by having Cruz plead guilty.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah's Republican Speaker of the House is backing an effort to repeal the death penalty in the state three years after lawmakers voted to reinstate the use of the firing squad as a backup execution method.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Attorneys for a Nevada death row inmate whose execution is on hold are telling the state Supreme Court that his execution using a never-before-tried lethal injection protocol would be less humane than a veterinary euthanasia.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A judge whose order to remove one of three drugs from a never-before-tried lethal injection protocol stalled Nevada's first scheduled execution in 11 years says the next step in the case is up to the state Supreme Court.
Executions of death row inmates occurred in only eight states in 2017 as public support for capital punishment wanes, according to an annual report by the Death Penalty Information Center.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A judge left a condemned Nevada prison inmate's execution on hold over concerns about using a never-before-tried three-drug combination for Nevada's first execution in more than 11 years.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada's former top doctor says a scarcity of lethal injection drugs nationwide drove plans to use a never-before-tried three-drug combination for the state's first execution in more than 11 years.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada death row inmate whose execution was postponed last week is complaining to a judge that he's suffering what he calls an open-ended and unnecessary delay.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada is turning to a never-before-tried combination of drugs for the first execution in the state in more than a decade — including the powerful opioid fentanyl and a paralyzing drug that could mask any signs of trouble.
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A death row inmate scheduled to become the first executed in Nevada in 11 years was placed on suicide watch for several days because he said he'll kill himself if the state won't do it.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge says she's leaning toward cutting a paralytic from the three-drug combination the state plans to use for the execution of a death-row inmate who said again he wants his sentence carried out next week.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada officials are pressing toward the state's first execution in 11 years, naming the state's top psychiatrist as interim replacement for the anesthesiologist who resigned last week after signing off on the lethal injection plan.
A death row inmate in the center of a controversy regarding the manner of his execution is scheduled to appear in a Las Vegas court this week by video conference from Ely.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Questions arose about the upcoming execution of a Nevada death row inmate who wants to die, with a disclosure in court that the state official who signed off on the untried three-drug protocol has resigned.
The ACLU of Nevada has filed a petition to stop an execution scheduled to be carried out this month.
The concerns originate with the drug cocktail that the Department of Corrections will use – because it’s a combo that has never been used in any execution in the country.
After Florida's Supreme Court said the governor could reassign her first-degree-murder cases, State Attorney Aramis Ayala said she respects the decision and announced new review measures.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada's attorney general is telling a state court judge that if a death row inmate really wants to challenge the method of his upcoming execution, he has to come up with a better plan.
