Death Penalty News
November 13, 2009 - The Associated Press
DC council defiant of Catholic Church's pressure to be exempt from gay marriage proposal
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington wants the city to change its proposal to legalize same-sex marriages to exempt the church from the law, but so far city council members aren't budging.
November 13, 2009 - The Plain Dealer
Ohio to use untested one-drug method to execute death row inmates
Ohio will soon become the only state to execute inmates using just a massive dose of sedative, a procedure that has never been tested on human beings.
November 11, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
Death penalty is considered a boon by some California inmates
White supremacist gang hit man Billy Joe Johnson got what he asked for from the Orange County jury that convicted him of first-degree murder last month: a death sentence.
October 21, 2009 - NPR
Former Texas governor rethinks death penalty
MELISSA BLOCK, host: A former Texas governor is making news by raising doubts about the death penalty. Democrat Mark White was governor from 1983 to '87, then a strong death penalty supporter who oversaw 19 executions. Now he's rethinking capital punishment and he joins us from Houston to explain why.
October 20, 2009 - The New York Times
One reporter’s lonely beat, witnessing executions
Of all the consequences of shrinking newsrooms, one of the oddest is this: Fewer journalists are available to watch people die.
October 20, 2009 - Dayton Daily News
Death penalty not efficient, police chiefs say
American police chiefs support the death penalty in principle, but don’t think it’s an efficient use of taxpayer money or a valuable tool for reducing violent crime, according to a nationwide poll to be released today, Oct. 20.
October 19, 2009 - The New York Times
Judge delays another Ohio execution
CINCINNATI — A federal judge has indefinitely delayed an execution scheduled for Dec. 8, the fourth execution to be postponed in Ohio since technicians failed for two hours last month to administer lethal drugs to a man convicted of murder and rape.
October 15, 2009 - The Wall Street Journal
Lethal injection draws scrutiny in some states
Despite the many arguments over whether criminals should be put to death, states thought they had settled at least one matter: the best way to carry out an execution.
October 10, 2009 - The Christian Science Monitor
Europeans press the US to end the death penalty
The United States does not often find itself in a league with China, Iran, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia.
October 6, 2009 - The Associated Press
Ohio considering bone, muscle for lethal injection
Ohio is considering injecting lethal drugs into inmates' bone marrow or muscles as an alternative to — or a backup for — the traditional intravenous execution procedure, a prisons department spokeswoman said Tuesday.
