A federal judge in Las Vegas is holding a series of hearings to assess whether Nevada’s new lethal injection protocol is constitutional. Nevada officials are seeking to use an experimental…
Marta BylicaDecember 20, 2021
A lawsuit filed in Oklahoma County District Court challenges the Oklahoma DOC’s refusal to disclose critical information about the substances used in the state’s lethal injection executions. The plaintiff, Fred…
Marta BylicaNovember 9, 2021
Oklahoma carried out its first lethal injection execution in more than six years. Despite a long and troubling history of botched lethal injections, and having previously rejected the method altogether,…
Marta BylicaOctober 28, 2021
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine granted four reprieves due to the unavailability of lethal injection drugs, continuing the state’s recent trend of postponing executions. According to a press release, these reprieves…
Marta BylicaSeptember 10, 2021
On July 1, 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland imposed a moratorium on federal executions and ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to review policies and procedures governing the administration of…
Marta BylicaJuly 28, 2021
On June 24, 2021, Hikma Phamaceuticals USA Inc. (Hikma), a company that manufactures the anesthetic Ketamine, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, after it emerged that…
Marta BylicaJuly 28, 2021
On February 5, 2021, the Virginia House of Delegates voted to approve a bill to abolish the death penalty in the state and the state Senate approved a similar measure…
Marta BylicaFebruary 16, 2021
Documents obtained by the ethics watchdog organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and investigative journalists at ProPublica revealed the myriad ways in which the Trump administration has…
Marta BylicaFebruary 16, 2021
In December 2020, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced that lethal injection is no longer an option for Ohio executions and lawmakers must choose a different method of capital punishment if…
Marta BylicaFebruary 16, 2021