The crime for which Lisa Montgomery was sentenced to death is about as horrific as one can imagine. In December 2004, she strangled a pregnant dog breeder, Bobbie Jo Stinnett, having pretended to be interested in buying one of her puppies, and used a kitchen knife to cut her baby out of her belly, whom she … Read more
Taiwan tries to make its executions ‘more humane’ with new rules allowing the condemned to be hooded (before they are sedated and shot in the heart) Condemned in Taiwan are currently laid face-down and shot in the heart They are also given a powerful sedative before being shot through the back New rules will allow … Read more
Texas executes its first death row prisoner in five months after coronavirus led to a pause: Robber was 18 when he killed man ‘like an executioner’ to steal his truck Billy Joe Wardlow died by lethal injection after a five-month delay The 45-year-old has been behind bars in Texas since he shot a man, 82, … Read more
Daniel Lewis Lee, 47-year-old avowed white supremacist, was scheduled to be put to death on Monday for the 1996 murder of a family of three, including an eight-year-old girl in Arkansas Four death-row inmates, including a white supremacist, have been scheduled for execution by the Justice Department, and will be the first prisoners to be … Read more