Death Row

A petition to exonerate a death row inmate scheduled to be executed on November 20 has received almost 3 million signatures.

Justen Grant Hall was given the lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, for the 2002 slaying of Melanie Billhartz.

Charles Russell Rhines, 63, was given the lethal injection at the state prison in Sioux Falls said South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg.

The family of Cameron "Todd" Willingham, unjustly executed in 2004, urge to test DNA in Sedley Alley's case—which was never done before Alley was executed in 2006.

John William King, on death row for the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd Jr., is scheduled to be executed Wednesday evening, unless his attorney's petition to the Supreme Court succeeds.

In 1998, James Byrd Jr. was lynched by three white supremacists. John William King, the ringleader, got the death penalty. More than 20 years after his conviction, he finally faces execution.

"This is not a happy night. This is the end of a horror story," the McLennan County District Attorney said.

David Earl Miller was convicted for a 1981 murder.

Ramos will be the eleventh prisoner executed by Texas so far this year.

The inmates argued that the state has the means to orchestrate their deaths by firing squad.

Bibi had been accused of insulting Islam during an argument with neighbors in 2009.

Rodney Scott Berget was executed by lethal injection for a 2011 murder during a failed attempt to escape from jail.

It is the first murder of a condemned prisoner in California for more than 20 years.

Carey Dean Moore has been on death row for almost 40 years.

He was convicted in 1986.

Christopher Young was found guilty of 2004 murder of shop owner.

The Iraqi authorities are fast-tracking trials for prisoners in the war against ISIS, including European women who traveled to Iraq to marry fighters for the group.

Iwao Hakamada was sentenced to death for murdering a family of four in 1966.

Bible "left a trail of carnage" before he was convicted, 20 years later.

Oklahoma is one of many states attempting to move beyond lethal injection as a method of execution.

Doyle Lee Hamm's execution was abandoned after 2.5 hours when medical staff could not find a suitable vein in his groin, feet or legs.

The Alabama man has spent nearly half his life on death row but a series of stokes has severely affected his memory.

He was pronounced dead at 6.05 p.m.

Death row inmate spared lethal injection following plea from father he tried to kill.

In denying an appeal from Branch, the Florida Supreme Court noted the extreme savagery of his crime.

"He was super driven and committed. That's one thing you can say about Suge Knight is that he really went after it."

Ross Allen Geiger asked Governor John Kasich to give Tibbetts mercy after he discovered crucial information that had been withheld from the jury before it made its decision to sentence him to death 20 years ago.

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

His daughter told Newsweek she will be relieved when her father is put to death.

The legal fight over executions in Nebraska reflects a national debate over whether to carry out the most serious punishment.