The attorney general suggested a nationwide hold on executions pending a Supreme Court review of Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol. Alabama, Florida, Ohio, and Tennessee have halted executions recently over drug issues, and activists called for Oregon’s outgoing governor to take action on the issue as well. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday that a […]
The Department of Corrections postponed the executions of Kelly Gissendaner and Brian Terrell in order to analyze the drugs that were to be used in last night’s execution. Update: March 3, 1:47 p.m. ET — The Georgia Department of Corrections formally postponed the scheduled execution of Kelly Gissendaner and the scheduled March 10 execution of […]
