Image copyright AFP Image caption Lee killed a family of three before dumping their bodies in a lake The first federal execution in the United States for more than 17 years is set to go ahead in Indiana on Monday following a ruling by an appeal court. The execution of convicted murderer Daniel Lewis Lee…
HOUSTON – Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.The secrecy surrounding executions could hinder efforts by a group of medical professionals who are asking the nation’s death penalty states for medications used in lethal injections so that they can go to coronavirus patients who are on…
Published: Apr 21st, 2020 - 11:12pm (EDT)Updated: Apr 21st, 2020 - 11:12pm (EDT) HOUSTON (AP) — A group of medical professionals is asking death penalty states for medications used both for lethal injections and to help coronavirus patients who are on ventilators.But a doctor who's behind the request and a death penalty expert says secrecy…
April 21, 2020 | 9:00pm Doctors believe drugs used for death penalty executions could save the lives of coronavirus patients. A group of seven pharmacists, public health experts and intensive care unit doctors penned a letter to corrections departments this month asking states with the death penalty to send any stockpiles they might have of…
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U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…