In its sixth execution this year, the state of Missouri carried out the execution of small-time methamphetamine dealer 54-year-old John Middleton, after he was convicted of murdering three people in the rural northern part of that state in the mid-90s. It was in June of 1995, according to Missouri’s court, that Middleton carried out the […]
The man who killed six of his family members, Ron Lee Haskell, collapsed in court as capital murder charges against him were being read aloud in a Harris County Courtroom on Friday. He had to be wheeled from the courtroom in a wheelchair. Haskell is charged with shooting his ex-wife’s sister and her family on Wednesday […]
As the drugs used for lethal injection becomes scarcer and scarcer with the advent of European-led boycotts of drug sales for that purpose, Tennessee’s governor Bill Haslam signed legislation in that state to bring back executions via the electric chair. The electric chair measure, sponsored by State Sen. Ken Yager, that sailed through both the […]
A botched execution by lethal injection in Oklahoma left an inmate writhing on the gurney for more than 40 minutes before he eventually died from a heart attack.Oklahoma’s Department of Corrections said inmate Clayton Lockett was issued the first of the state’s new three-drug lethal injection combination on Tuesday. Thirteen minutes later the convicted […]