A man convicted of killing four members of a Phoenix family over 30 years ago in an act of revenge over stolen goods was put to death Friday in Arizona’s second execution of the year. Richard Kenneth Djerf, 55, died by lethal injection at 10:40 a.m. local time for the killings of Albert Luna Sr….
A Mississippi man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 20-year-old community college student in 1993 was executed Wednesday. Charles Crawford, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. following a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman. Crawford had spent more than 30 years on death row. His execution comes several months after…
A death row inmate in Missouri is set to be executed Tuesday after the state’s governor denied his clemency petition. Lance Shockley, 48, was convicted of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a Missouri state trooper in 2005, court records show. Shockley has maintained his innocence for the last 20 years, as his lawyers argued in…
An Indiana man convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl was executed by injection early Friday in the state’s third execution since resuming capital punishment last year. Roy Lee Ward, 53, was put to death at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. Indiana Department of Correction said in a statement…
A man who is scheduled to be executed later this month for a 1993 murder continues to maintain his innocence, saying on Wednesday, “I didn’t kill anybody. I didn’t participate in any killing.” Anthony Boyd, 53, has been on death row in Alabama for the last three decades. He was convicted in 1995 of capital…
If Christa Gail Pike’s execution proceeds as planned next year, she will become the first woman put to death in Tennessee since the state began to formally document capital punishment more than a century ago. After attempted appeals by Pike’s attorneys repeatedly failed, the Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday set a date for her to…
An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman during a 1997 gas station robbery was put to death Thursday after apologizing to his victim’s family and pleas from the woman’s son to spare his life. Geoffrey Todd West, 50, was executed at William C. Holman Correctional Facility by nitrogen gas, a method Alabama began using…
The Utah Supreme Court has blocked a death row inmate’s upcoming execution, after the inmate’s attorneys argued in an extensive legal back-and-forth with the state that their client’s worsening dementia should spare him from capital punishment. Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, was set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three…
A man convicted of abducting a woman from a Florida Panhandle insurance office and killing her was executed Tuesday evening. Kayle Bates, 67, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. It was the 10th death sentence…
An Alabama inmate, who officials say is scheduled to die in October by nitrogen hypoxia, is pushing for execution by firing squad, hanging or medical-aid-in-dying instead. Anthony Boyd has filed a lawsuit challenging the relatively new and controversial execution method that uses lethal gas to cause suffocation, arguing its application is unconstitutionally cruel — something…