The United State Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has sided with Attorney General Liz Murrill’s Office in overturning ...
A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die ...
The appeals court ruled, however, that the stay of execution would remain in effect until a similar court case also involving DNA was resolved. That case was brought by a different Texas prisoner ...
The court rejected arguments that the execution would be unfair because ... chose to die by firing squad because of the possible effects of lethal injection. Sigmon, of Greenville, was convicted ...
Death by firing squad could become Idaho’s primary method of execution under a bill headed to the governor’s desk ...
The Idaho Senate passed the bill on Wednesday, and it will take effect next year if it is signed ... execute Thomas Eugene Creech last year, when execution team members were unable to find a ...