Capital Punishment

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Officials in November 2017 struggled for 25 minutes to find a vein to shoot lethal injection drugs into his arm.

A recent political development has opened up the possibility of accomplishing the task in 2018.

This comes as public support for capital punishment hits historic lows.

Capital punishment cases are down but five of the 23 executions this year still highlight the arguments of those who oppose the death penalty.

The death penalty is expensive, wrongful convictions are "far too frequent" and drug complications often make the killing drawn out and inhumane. Politicians are just unable to ignore it now.

Ledelle Lee and Kenneth Williams received communion, while Marcel Williams and Jack Jones had more elaborate requests.

The double execution took place days after the state ended a nearly 12-year hiatus on executing prisoners on death row.

Arkansas, which has not carried out an execution in 12 years, planned to begin the lethal injections of at least six convicted murderers on Monday.

The 6-2 ruling handed a victory to convicted murderer Duane Buck, 53, who had challenged his death sentence in a state that long has led the nation in executions.

Pfizer's choice to block its products from being used in executions complicates capital punishment.

Convicts will likely be put to death by firing squad on the prison island of Nusakambangan.

The state was unsuccessful when it first tried to execute Romell Broom in 2009.

Texas to execute Coy “Elvis Wayne” Wesbrook after spending 17 years on death row.

Georgia is slated to execute a former sailor on Wednesday for the murder and dismemberment of a fellow shipmate 24 years ago.

James Freeman, now 34, is set to be executed on Wednesday for the 2007 shooting death of state game warden Justin Hurst.

Alabama is slated to carry out its first execution using a new and controversial three-part lethal injection cocktail.

Richard Masterson is set to be executed on Wednesday by lethal injection for the January 2001 strangulation murder of Darin Honeycutt.

Oscar Bolin was found guilty of murdering three women nearly 30 years ago.

A new report estimates that 300 people on death row served in the military.

It was the first execution in Florida since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a controversial drug constitutional.

The request follows the state's chemicals mix-up in the Richard Glossip case.

Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin issued death row inmate Richard Glossip a stay of execution on Wednesday afternoon.

His lawyers had hoped newly submitted evidence would bolster his case.

The justices ruled that midazolam is constitutional when administering the death penalty.

The case the Supreme Court justice said was the perfect justification for capital punishment has fallen apart.

Cecil Clayton, who was found guilty of killing a sheriff’s deputy in 1996, was missing parts of his brain’s frontal lobe.

Despite missing a portion of his brain, Cecil Clayton is scheduled to be executed Tuesday afternoon.

A new report has revealed that the number of executions has increased since president Rouhani came to power.

The decision will affect planned executions.