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Oklahoma Executes Kendrick Simpson for 2006 Double Murder

A 3-2 clemency denial left no path for gubernatorial intervention.

Alabama Sets March Nitrogen Execution Window for Accomplice in 1991 AutoZone Killing

India’s Supreme Court Reserves Judgment on Challenge to Death by Hanging

U.S. Executions Reach 16-Year High of 47 in 2025

Florida Executes Mark Allen Geralds for 1989 Home-Invasion Murder as 2025 Total Hits 18

Knesset Panel Weighs Death Penalty Bill as Far-Right MKs Wear Noose Pins

Starmer Rejects Death Penalty Referendum at PMQs

Alabama Executes Anthony Boyd With Nitrogen Gas as Witnesses Report Prolonged Death

Alabama Executes Anthony Todd Boyd by Nitrogen Gas After Supreme Court Denies Final Appeal

Supreme Court Raps Centre for Opposing Lethal Injection Option, Sets Nov. 11 Hearing

Ohio Weighs Nitrogen Executions as Yost Urges Action, DeWine Extends Delays

Judge Denies Stay for Anthony Boyd Ahead of Alabama Nitrogen Execution

Utah Supreme Court Vacates Firing Squad Execution Date for Ralph Menzies, Orders New Competency Review

Alabama Sets Late-October Execution for Anthony Boyd Using Nitrogen Gas

Utah Judge Schedules Sept. 5 Firing Squad Execution for Inmate With Dementia

Alabama Schedules Nitrogen Gas Execution for Geoffrey Todd West on Sept. 25

Tennessee Executes Oscar Smith Under Revised Lethal Injection Protocol

South Carolina Firing Squad Execution Deemed Botched After Autopsy Findings

Texas Executes Moises Sandoval Mendoza for 2004 Murder

South Carolina Executes Mikal Mahdi by Firing Squad in Rare Use of the Method