For 22 years, Ledell Lee maintained that he had been wrongly convicted of murder. “My dying words will always be, as it has been, ‘I am an innocent man,’” he told the BBC in an interview published on April 19, 2017 — the day before officials in Arkansas administered the lethal injection. Four years later, […]
The South Carolina Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that added a firing squad as an alternative execution method for those facing the death penalty. The Senate passed the bill 32-11, adding the firing squad option to the electric chair in case an inmate choose one of them over lethal injection, The Associated Press reported. […]
Virginia legislators appear poised to abolish the death penalty in the coming days, a step that would make it the first Southern state to end the practice of capital punishment. A bill to end capital punishment passed the state Senate on Wednesday by a 21-17 margin. The state House of Delegates is set to take […]
The federal government is scheduled to execute a woman for the first time in more than 60 years. Lisa Montgomery was convicted in 2007 of fatally strangling a pregnant woman, cutting open her body and kidnapping her baby. She will be executed by lethal injection on Dec. 8 in Indiana, according to the Justice Department. […]