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Barton would be the first inmate executed in Missouri and the sixth in the United States this year

Missouri plans first US execution since pandemic began

A Missouri man who was convicted of stabbing to death an elderly trailer park manager three decades ago is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection today, marking the first execution in the United States since the Covid-19 pandemic began.

World • 19 May 20

Justen Hall was the eighth person executed in the state of Texas this year

Texas executes white supremacist for murder

Texas has executed a former leader of a white supremacist gang for the 2002 murder of a woman near El Paso.

US • 07 Nov 19

Under Tennessee law, those convicted before 1999 can choose between lethal injection and electrocution

US murderer executed after choosing electric chair

A man put to death in the US state of Tennessee yesterday for murdering a woman and her daughter chose in his final hours to be electrocuted rather than executed by lethal injection, prison officials said.

US • 16 Aug 19

Top from left: Bruce Earl Ward, Don W Davis Ledell Lee, Stacey Johnson. Bottom from left: Jack Jones Jr, Marcel Williams, Kenneth Williams, Jason McGehee

Judge blocks drug planned for Arkansas executions

Arkansas's plans to execute eight prisoners in just ten days faces setbacks, after a judge blocked use of a key lethal injection drug and one of the inmates got a top court reprieve.

News • 15 Apr 17

Turkey and Europe are locked in a diplomatic crisis

Juncker warns Turkey death penalty is 'red line' issue

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has warned Turkey that any return of the death penalty would be a "red line" in the country's stalled EU membership bid.

Turkey • 19 Mar 17

Lawyers unsuccessfully appealed to multiple courts to have the execution halted

Concern over botched execution in Arizona

An inmate in Arizona took almost two hours to die by lethal injection in the latest botched execution to raise questions about the death penalty in the United States.

News • 24 Jul 14

Nawaz Sharif's government's policy is to execute all death row prisoners

Pakistan reintroduces death penalty

Pakistan's new government has ended a ban on the death penalty, in a move condemned as "shocking and retrograde" by rights group Amnesty International.

News • 05 Jul 13