Executions

Coddington is the first of 25 inmates whose execution dates were set last month after a federal judge rejected their challenge to Oklahoma's execution protocol.

James, 50, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1994 shooting to death of his ex-girlfriend Faith Hall.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals set execution dates for 25 death row inmates after a federal judge upheld the state's lethal injection protocol.

In his Sunday sermon, Pastor Dillon Awes of the Stedfast Baptist Church said that all gay people in America should be "lined up" and executed.

Atwood, 66, was sentenced to death for the 1984 killing of 8-year-old Vicki Lynn Hoskinson.

"I'm all for public execution," a man said outside the NRA convention in Texas, seconds before decrying abortion as "murder."

Attorneys for the inmates had argued that the use of the sedative midoazolam violated the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment

Dixon, 66, died by lethal injection at the state prison in Florence on May 11.

Clarence Dixon, 66, is set to receive a lethal injection at the state prison in Florence for the 1978 killing of 21-year-old student Deana Bowdoin.

"Melissa Lucio has been on death row for over 14 years for her daughter's death that was a tragic accident," Kardashian wrote in a tweet.

Buntion, 78, is scheduled to be executed on April 21 for the killing of a Houston police officer more than 30 years ago.

The Arizona Supreme Court set a May 11 execution date for Dixon, who was sentenced to death for the 1978 killing of an Arizona State University student.

Gilbert Postelle, 35, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester on February 17.

Grant, 46, was put to death by lethal injection shortly after 10 a.m. on January 27 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

Grant, 46, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester on January 27.

Death penalty opponents will gather outside the Supreme Court to call for the passage of the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act.

The upsetting clip of the mock killing has been viewed more than 418,000 times on social media since it was uploaded.

The 11 executions carried out in 2021 were the fewest since 1988, according to the Death Penalty Information Center's year-end report.

Stouffer, 79, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 10 a.m. on December 9 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

David Neal Cox, the first man executed in Mississippi since 2012, confessed to a 2007 murder of his sister-in-law before his death for killing his wife.

The reality television star said she and other advocates were "anxiously awaiting" Oklahoma governor's decision on whether to commute Jones' death sentence.

Jones' execution is scheduled for November 19, but Gov. Kevin Stitt is still considering a state parole board recommendation to commute his death sentence.

The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a preliminary injunction request to stay executions for inmates Julius Jones, Wade Lay, Donald Grant and Gilbert Postelle.

Oklahoma's Pardon and Parole Board has twice voted to recommend Gov. Kevin Stitt commute Jones' sentence. His execution is scheduled for November 18.

Witness accounts of John Grant's execution differed dramatically from the version offered by the state.

Javaid Rehman, the U.N.'s independent investigator on human rights in Iran, said that the country continues to use the death penalty "at an alarming rate."

Judge Stephen Friot denied a motion for a preliminary injunction that was sought by five death row inmates.

"Yesterday's executions of 24 people demonstrates the Syrian government's disregard for international law," said Diana Semaan of Amnesty International.

The 61-year-old died from an injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre.

Grant's execution would be Oklahoma's first since capital punishment was paused in 2015 after a series of botched and flawed executions.