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28 Mar 2017, 10:45 am
[JURIST] Nine Arkansas death row inmates, including eight scheduled for lethal injections next month, jointly filed suit [complaint, PDF] against Governor Asa Hutchinson [official website] and Department of Correction Director Wendy Kelly [official website] on Monday to stop the executions. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 3:12 pm
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered state prison officials to provide taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder. [read post]
17 May 2021, 12:46 pm
Henry McMaster has signed into law a bill that forces death row inmates for now to choose between the electric chair or a newly formed firing squad in hopes the state can restart executions after an involuntary 10-year pause. [read post]
25 Dec 2014, 3:56 pm
[JURIST] Four death row inmates filed a complaint [complaint, PDF] on Wednesday challenging Substitute House Bill 663 [text], a measure providing for the confidentiality of entities involved in the manufacture of drugs for use in capital punishment by lethal injection, and of the persons involved in executing a sentence of capital punishment. [read post]
20 Oct 2006, 1:21 am
[JURIST] Michael Dewayne Johnson [backgrounder; TDCJ offender profile], a death row inmate in Texas, committed suicide Thursday, 15-hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
25 Oct 2019, 12:37 pm
— The inmate’s request was a surprising one, made three days before he was to be executed in October 2018: Edmund Zagorski told the state of Tennessee he’d rather die in the electric chair than receive a lethal injection. [read post]
26 Jan 2009, 8:07 pm
It's the first time in Nebraska history that DNA evidence led to inmates being freed from prison. [read post]
15 Oct 2015, 12:56 pm
[JURIST] Death row inmates in Indonesia have been denied the right to counsel, beaten and coerced into confessions, according to an Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] report [text, PDF] published Thursday. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 6:00 am
[JURIST] The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles [official website] on Monday rejected [press release] a clemency bid by death row inmate Warren Hill who was convicted of two counts of murder but argues he should not be executed because he is mentally disabled. [read post]
27 Jan 2016, 10:28 am
Read More The post Large Numbers of Texas Inmates Suffer From Mental Health Problems appeared first on . [read post]
17 Mar 2015, 10:20 am
[JURIST] A transgender inmate in Massachusetts on Monday asked [cert. petition PDF] the US Supreme Court [official website] to overturn a ruling denying her request for sex reassignment surgery. [read post]
16 Mar 2007, 6:35 am
Death-row inmate Robert Charles Comer, 50, wants to die. [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 2:38 pm
The drug is also part of the three-drug cocktail many death penalty states use to execute condemned inmates. [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 4:11 pm
After the suit was thrown out at the district court level, the federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said the Texas Civil Rights Project could sue the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on behalf of inmates over excessive heat. [read post]
21 Oct 2016, 11:37 am
One inmate remains in serious condition. [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 5:59 am
California has begun the process of releasing 6,500 inmates over the next year. [read post]
1 Nov 2008, 5:47 pm
In 2004, only 30 Denver inmates asked to vote. [read post]
28 Aug 2008, 11:17 pm
"Some of the inmates went into a rage and Mr. [read post]
13 Nov 2023, 12:37 pm
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case involving the denial of exercise time to an inmate in solitary confinement. [read post]
26 Feb 2025, 2:47 am
The post US Supreme Court overturns Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip conviction and death sentence appeared first on JURIST - News. [read post]
