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FILE - This undated file photo released on Tuesday Feb. 21,2012, provided by the Utah Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Michael Archuleta. A judge has halted the firing squad execution of the 50-year-old Archuleta convicted of torturing and murdering a Utah college student in 1988. U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell canceled Archuleta's April 5 execution date so he can pursue an appeal in federal court. Archuleta's most recent appeal failed in November. (AP Photo/Utah Department of Corrections,File)

Judge halts firing squad execution for Utah death row inmate

Last updated Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 10:02am

SALT LAKE CITY -- A judge has halted the firing squad execution of a 50-year-old man convicted of torturing and murdering a Utah college student in 1988.

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FILE - This undated photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections shows death-row inmate Robert Henry Moormann. Arizona executed Moormann Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 for killing and dismembering his adoptive mother while he was out of prison on furlough for another crime, despite a spate of last-minute appeals over his mental disabilities and how the state has changed and violated its own execution protocol. (AP Photo/Arizona Department of Corrections, File)

Arizona executes man for killing, dismembering mom

Amanda Lee Myers The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 3:32pm

FLORENCE, Ariz. -- Arizona executed an inmate Wednesday for killing and dismembering his adoptive mother while he was out of prison on furlough for another crime, despite a spate of last-minute appeals over his mental disabilities and how the state has changed and violated its own execution protocol.

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In this photo released on Tuesday Feb. 21,2012 provided by the Utah Department of Corrections showing death row inmate Michael Archuleta Archuleta is asking a Utah judge for a stay of an April 5, 2012 execution by firing squad while he pursues an appeal in the federal courts.†(AP Photo/Utah Department of Corrections)

Utah death row inmate seeks stay of execution

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 12:41pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A death row inmate is asking a Utah judge for a stay of an April 5 execution by firing squad while he pursues a review of his state conviction and sentence in the federal courts.

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Execution date set for convicted Utah killer

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 6:17pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A judge has set an April 5 execution date for a Utah State Prison inmate on death row since 1989.

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(WILLIAM FERNANDO MARTINEZ/The Associated Press) Margarita Hernandez, sister of slain hostage Elkin Hernandez, speaks on the phone in front of her home in Bogota, Colombia, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos said that rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, killed four security force members who had been held as hostages during years, including Hernandez, a police major kidnapped in 1998. All were found killed execution-style Saturday morning in the southern state of Caqueta.

Colombian official: Rebels executed 4 captives

Frank Bajak The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, November 26, 2011 - 6:41pm

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s main rebel group killed four of its longest-held captives, whose bodies were found Saturday after soldiers fought with guerrillas, the government said.

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(The Associated Press) This file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Reginald Brooks, who is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011, for fatally shooting his three sons while they slept in 1982, shortly after his wife filed for divorce. Brooks, 66, of East Cleveland, would be the oldest person put to death in Ohio and the first executed by the state in nearly six months.

Ohio executes man who killed 3 sleeping sons

Kantele Franko The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 8:38am

LUCASVILLE, Ohio — Ohio could execute at least seven condemned killers next year now that an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment has ended in the state and numerous inmates exhaust decades old appeals.

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(STEPHEN MORTON/The Associated Press) Friends and supporters chant in the street and block traffic outside Jonesville Baptist Church following the funeral of Troy Davis in Savannah, Ga., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011. Davis died by injection for the 1989 slaying of off-duty Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail.

Troy Davis mourned as a martyr by 1,000 in Ga.

Russ Bynum The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 4:33pm

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Sent to death row 20 years ago as a convicted cop killer, Troy Davis was celebrated as “martyr and foot soldier” Saturday by more than 1,000 people who packed the pews at his funeral and pledged to keep fighting the death penalty.

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Elaborate last-meal request kills privilege for condemned Texas prisoners

McClatchy Newspapers The Dallas Morning News

Last updated Friday, September 23, 2011 - 5:51am

AUSTIN, Texas — A gut-busting dinner, including a triple cheeseburger, pizza, fajitas, two chicken-fried steaks and pint of ice cream, sent some Texans over the edge.

Death row inmate Lawrence Brewer’s food order seemed more like a feast fit for an army than a man headed to execution. Now, because of public outrage, it’s last special meal that will be made for condemned prisoners.

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Demonstrators celebrate after receiving inaccurate reports that death row inmate Troy Davis had been granted a stay of execution as they gather for a vigil in front of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. Davis is facing lethal injection for killing an off-duty Georgia policeman in Savannah -- a crime he and others have insisted for years that he did not commit. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Ga. executes Davis; supporters claim injustice

Greg Bluestein The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 1:58pm

JACKSON, Ga. -- Strapped to a gurney in Georgia's death chamber, Troy Davis lifted his head and declared one last time that he did not kill police officer Mark MacPhail. Just a few feet away behind a glass window, MacPhail's son and brother watched in silence.

Outside the prison, a crowd of more than 500 demonstrators cried, hugged, prayed and held candles. They represented hundreds of thousands of supporters worldwide who took up the anti-death penalty cause as Davis' final days ticked away.

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Pakistani killer mob members get death sentence

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 7:44am

ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court has sentenced seven men to death for lynching two teenagers in a mob killing that was recorded and shown widely on television.

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(CURTIS COMPTON/The Associated Press) Shelley Serdahely, Roswell, joins hundreds of protesters at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta against the execution of Troy Anthony Davis on Tuesday Sept. 20, 2011 in Atlanta. The state parole board has denied Davis clemency and the execution is set for Wednesday for the murder of an off-duty Savannah police officer in 1989.

Troy Davis nears Georgia execution despite protests

Greg Bluestein The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 6:53am

ATLANTA — With less than half a day left to live, Troy Davis faced execution Wednesday despite a furious campaign in the U.S. and Europe to win clemency for the 1989 slaying of a Georgia policeman he claims he did not commit.

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This undated handout photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Duane Buck. Defense attorneys are calling on Texas Gov. Rick Perry to halt the execution of Buck who is scheduled to be put to death Thursday because jurors heard testimony during sentencing in his 1997 trial that blacks are more likely to pose future dangers to the public. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)

Texas execution halted

Michael Graczyk The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, September 16, 2011 - 9:31am

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A black man convicted of a double murder in Texas 16 years ago was at least temporarily spared from lethal injection when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review his lawyers' claims that race played an improper role in his sentencing.

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Ohio executes man for killing fellow jail inmate

The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 10:40am

LUCASVILLE, Ohio -- A man was executed Tuesday for beating and stomping to death a fellow jail inmate days after the two had argued over what to watch on television.

Clarence Carter, 49, died at 10:25 a.m. at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. He was the second inmate in the nation killed using the surgical sedative pentobarbital as a stand-alone execution drug.

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