A man on Alabama’s death row wants his execution to go forward Thursday, saying he believes in an “eye for an eye.” “The reason I dropped my appeals is I am guilty of murder,” James Osgood told The Associated Press in an telephone interview from prison. “I’m a firm believer in, like I said in…
As attorney general of Oklahoma, Gentner Drummond has personally attended nine executions. Since taking office in 2023, he’s approved of every death row case in the state — except one. “I believed it my duty to look at…every person on death row,” he told CBS News. “When I stumbled across Richard Glossip, it was different….
China’s embassy in Ottawa has confirmed executions of four dual Canadian-Chinese citizens for drug offences. China executed four Canadian citizens for drug-related offences earlier this year, despite multiple pleas for clemency, Canada’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said. Foreign Minister Melanie Joly told reporters on Wednesday that she “strongly condemns” the executions, and that both…
Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state’s first execution in 15 years, The Associated Press reported. Nitrogen gas has been used just four other times to execute a person in the United States — all in Alabama, the only other state with a protocol for the…
BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next week. U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, stopping the state from immediately moving forward with the execution, which would have been Louisiana’s first in 15…
I’ve now watched through glass and bars as 11 men were put to death at a South Carolina prison. None of the previous 10 prepared me for watching the firing squad death of Brad Sigmon on Friday night. I might now be unique among U.S. reporters: I’ve witnessed three different methods – nine lethal injections and…
Why execution by firing squad is a legal option – CBS News Watch CBS News For the first time in 15 years, a death row inmate was executed by a firing squad. Authorities gave Brad Sigmon, convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents, three options to die — firing squad, the electric chair and lethal injection. He…
A South Carolina man is facing execution by firing squad Friday — the first execution of its kind in the U.S. since 2010 and just the fourth firing squad execution since the death penalty resumed in the country 49 years ago. When the clock strikes 6 on Friday evening, 67-year-old Brad Sigmon is scheduled to walk…
When a South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat steps into the death row chamber Friday night, it won’t be lethal injection or electrocution that ends his life. It will be three people holding rifles about 15 feet away who will complete his punishment in what will be the United…
A terminally ill man who spent over 30 years on death row in Louisiana for the killing of his stepson died days after a March date was scheduled for his execution by nitrogen gas. Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, “from natural causes as a result of complications…