Officials: Calif governor delays execution by 45 hours to allow time for appeals

Calif gov delays execution to allow appeals time

Officials: Calif governor delays execution by 45 hours for clemency request, appeals

California governor delays execution by 45 hours

Calif judge refuses death row inmate’s request to block 1st state execution since 2006

Calif state court judge refuses to block execution

Calif. death row inmate asks court to halt execution, refuses to choose type of injection

Calif. inmate asks federal court to halt execution

Judge gives death row inmate 18 more hours to consider method of execution

Inmate gets more time to choose execution method

Monday execution scheduled for suicidal Georgia death row inmate; US Supreme Court denies stay

Monday execution scheduled for suicidal Ga. inmate

Federal judge OKs 1st Calif execution since ‘06 after state revises lethal injection procedure

Judge clears way for 1st Calif execution since ‘06

Ohio prisons director says executioners occasionally miss rehearsals for inmates’ last day

Ohio prison staff sometimes miss execution prep

Ohio killer ends attempt to delay 2nd inmate’s execution for mental disability claim testimony

Ohio killer ends try to stop 2nd inmate execution

Ohio killer wants inmate’s execution delayed to allow testimony on mentally disabled claim

Ohio killer aims to stop fellow inmate’s execution

Federal judge denies appeal for Wash. death row inmate Cal Brown, execution set for Sept. 10

Federal judge denies appeal for death row inmate

Federal judge says Ohio inmate can pursue fight against state’s 2nd attempt to execute him

Judge: Ohio inmate can fight 2nd execution attempt

4 executed in Equatorial Guinea coup plot; opposition calls them political assassinations

4 executed in Equatorial Guinea coup plot

JOHANNESBURG — Equatorial Guinea’s government on Tuesday defended the execution of four alleged coup plotters just an hour after they were condemned in a case that Amnesty International called a “pretense of justice.”

Texas Supreme Court lets stand reprimand for top judge’s handling of execution-day appeal

Judge’s reprimand in death penalty case stands

Japan hangs 2 on death row, while justice minister calls for new debate on capital punishment

Japan hangs 2 on death row; 1st executions in year

Risky business: Target defends controversial new donation in Minnesota campaign

Target Corp. defends Minn. political donation

Supreme Court to review case of Texas death row inmate who wants DNA testing

Supreme Court to review Texan’s death row case

APNewsBreak: Worldwide shortage of death penalty drug threatened upcoming Ohio execution

APNewsBreak: Ohio faced execution drug shortage

Judge: Ohio inmate didn’t offer medical evidence that execution poses anesthesia allergy risk

Judge: No allergy risk proven for Ohio execution

Federal judge grants stay of execution of Nevada inmate who also was spared in 2005

Federal judge grants stay of Nevada execution

Mongolia president says no to death penalty, says country should follow majority of world

Mongolia president says no to death penalty

Judge says condemned Ohio inmate who survived botched execution attempt has limited options

Judge: Ohio inmate’s execution appeal has limits

Condemned Ohio inmate who survived botched September execution asks judge to stop 2nd try

Ohio killer asks judge to stop 2nd execution try

Ohio killer is put to death in first US execution to use a single drug injection

Ohio executes inmate with one-drug injection

Uganda debates death penalty for gays in proposed law; activists say bill promotes hatred

Death penalty for gays? Uganda debates proposal

Ohio killer is 1st US inmate put to death through 1-drug injection instead of conventional 3

Ohio executes inmate with 1-drug lethal injection

US Supreme Court rejects stay for condemned killer in 1st lethal injection in US using 1 drug

Supreme Court won’t block 1st US 1-drug execution

Condemned Ohio killer who scattered woman’s remains awaits 1st US single-drug lethal injection

Ohio killer awaits 1st US 1-drug lethal injection

Ohio dismemberment killer arrives in death house to become 1st executed with single drug

Ohio killer awaits fate as 1st execution on 1 drug

Ohio dismemberment killer, delay denied by federal judge, asks appeals court to stop execution

Ohio killer asks appeals court to stop execution

Ohio dismemberment killer arrives in death house, could become 1st executed with single drug

Ohio dismemberment killer arrives in death house

Ohio inmate denied stay in scheduled execution Tuesday, would be 1st under new 1-drug method

Judge in Ohio rejects stay in 1st 1-drug execution

Ky. won’t appeal lethal injection ruling, must hold hearings before resuming executions

Ky. won’t appeal ruling that delays executions

Federal appeals court upholds Ohio dismemberment killer’s execution scheduled for Tuesday

Appeals court upholds Ohio killer’s execution

Texas man who killed girl executed; attorneys said he should have been spared due to low IQ

Texas executes killer of 11-year-old girl

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A 44-year-old Texas man was executed Thursday evening for raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl, despite pleas from his attorneys he was too mentally impaired to qualify for capital punishment.

Texas man who killed girl faces execution; attorneys say he should be spared due to low IQ

Texas man loses Supreme Court appeal to spare him

Ohio dismemberment killer files emergency request for delay of Tuesday execution

Ohio dismemberment killer files new delay request

Ohio death row inmate fighting state’s new execution method asks federal court to intervene

Ohio inmate seeks hearing over execution method

Federal court says execution can proceed under new Ohio lethal injection method

Execution can proceed under new Ohio standards

Ky. Supreme Court: State must readopt lethal injection method upheld by US Supreme Court

Ky. court says state must readopt lethal injection

Federal court lifts stay of Dec. 8 execution due to Ohio’s change in lethal injection policy

Federal court allows Dec. 8 execution in Ohio