As the white van rolled toward the death house at Holman Correctional Facility last Thursday night, 57-year-old Danny Hamm began to sweat. The vehicle was emblazoned with the logo of the Alabama ...
IDAHO -- The Idaho Department of Corrections made changes to its execution chamber and procedures following the failed execution of convicted killer Thomas Eugene Creech. Creech was supposed to be ...
Attorneys for Kenneth Eugene Smith believe he was strapped to the death chamber gurney at Holman Correctional Facility for four hours Thursday night as the state began preparing for his execution at 7 ...
THE botched execution of a death row prisoner has been described as torture after he was ‘poked and prodded’ for nearly two hours. “He did say it was a day he’d never forget,” said David Stebbins, ...
Idaho called off the Wednesday morning execution of five-time murderer Thomas Eugene Creech—who has spent more than four decades on death row—after a medical team was unable to establish an IV line to ...
The botched execution of a murderer in Oklahoma Tuesday is again highlighting the ongoing controversy stemming from a number of American states who are straining to continue with the death penalty ...
A death row inmate suffered a gruesome botched execution when a strap on the electric chair broke, engulfing him in flames and filling the room with the smell of "burning flesh". John Louis Evans III, ...
Abe Bonowitz of Death Penalty Action, an execution abolitionist group, protests near the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex. (Jeremy Hogan / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images) By ...