US DoJ expands methods of executions, adds firing squads, gas, and electrocution

The US Department of Justice on Friday directed the country’s federal prisons to expand the range of methods used for the ...
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Brevard’s death row is shrinking as executions accelerate

During the last 10 years, the number of death row inmates from Brevard dropped from 12 down to three and soon it will likely be two. Chadwick Willacy, formerly of Palm Bay and who has spent 36 years ...
The New York Times

The Death Penalty’s Alarming and Secretive Comeback

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USA Today

Alabama governor stops 'unjust' execution of inmate set to die this week

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of an inmate two days before his execution, saying it would be "unjust" to take his life when he wasn't the triggerman in a robbery gone bad. The ...
The Courier-Journal

Death row executions could resume under approved Kentucky bill

A bill that would clear the way for executions of death row inmates to resume in the commonwealth is headed to Gov. Andy Beshear’s desk after it passed in the Kentucky Senate on April 1. Senate Bill ...