Executions

FILE - This photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Kevin Johnson. A federal judge has denied a request from a 19-year-old woman to allow her to watch Johnson, her father’s death by injection. The decision upholds a Missouri law that bars anyone under 21 from witnessing an execution. Kevin Johnson is set to be executed Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, for killing Kirkwood, Missouri, Police Officer William McEntee in 2005. (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP)

Missouri man put to death for killing police officer in 2005

A Missouri man convicted of ambushing and killing a St. Louis area police officer he blamed in the death of his younger brother has been executed.

FILE - Officials escort murder suspect Alan Eugene Miller away from the Pelham City Jail in Alabama, Aug. 5, 1999. Miller was sentenced to death after being convicted of a 1999 workplace rampage. According to the terms of a settlement agreement approved on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, Alabama will not seek another lethal injection date for Miller, an inmate whose September execution had been halted because of problems establishing an intravenous line. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

Alabama ‘execution survivor’ reaches settlement with state

Wanda Farris, the mother of slain teenager Leesa Gray, second from right, is surrounded by supporters as she leaves the federal courthouse in Jackson, Miss., on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, after they listened to several hours of arguments about Mississippi's three-drug protocol for executions. Thomas Edwin Loden Jr. pleaded guilty in 2001 to capital murder, rape and four counts of sexual battery in the 2000 death of Gray, a 16-year-old waitress from north Mississippi. Loden is a plaintiff in the lawsuit. The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled his execution for Dec. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Judge mulls arguments in Mississippi death penalty protocol

This undated photo provided by Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher’s wife. Smith, 57, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at a south Alabama prison on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. (Alabama Department of Corrections via AP).

Attorneys: ‘Botched’ execution caused pain and torture

This photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Kevin Johnson. The Missouri man sentenced to death for killing a police officer in a fit of rage over his brother's death is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution planned for later this month, in part because the man was a teenager at the time of the killing. (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP)

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FILE - This photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Kevin Johnson. A judge has declined to vacate the death sentence for Johnson, who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, for killing Kirkwood, Mo., Police Officer William McEntee in 2005. A special prosecutor appointed to look into the case had urged the court to halt the death sentence, citing concerns about racial bias. Johnson is Black and McEntee was white. (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP, File)

19-year-old asks court to let her watch father’s execution

This undated photo provided by Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher’s wife. Smith, 57, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at a south Alabama prison on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. (Alabama Department of Corrections via AP).

Alabama fails to complete lethal injection for 3rd time

FILE - This photo shows the gurney in the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla., on Oct. 9, 2014. A scheduled execution in Alabama that was called off Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, after prison officials could not find a suitable vein to inject the lethal drugs into is the latest in a long history of problems with lethal injections since Texas became the first state to use the execution method in 1982, including delays in finding usable veins. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

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This undated photo provided by Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher’s wife. Smith, 57, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at a south Alabama prison on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. (Alabama Department of Corrections via AP).

Alabama calls off execution after difficulties inserting IV

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Richard Fairchild. Oklahoma plans to execute Fairchild on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, for the brutal slaying of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son in 1993. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP, File)

Oklahoma executes man for 1993 killing of 3-year-old boy

FILE - In this May 25, 2022, photo released by the Mississippi Department of Corrections is Thomas Edwin Loden Jr. In a Thursday, Nov, 17, 2022, ruling, the Mississippi Supreme Court granted a motion from the state to set an execution date for Loden Jr., a former U.S. Marine Corps recruiter who was convicted in the 2000 rape and killing of a 16-year-old waitress. Loden will be put to death on Dec. 14, at 6 p.m., or as soon as possible within 24 hours of that date. (Mississippi Department of Corrections via AP, File)

Mississippi sets execution date for 21-year death row inmate

FILE - This photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Kevin Johnson. A judge has declined to vacate the death sentence for Johnson, who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, for killing Kirkwood, Mo., Police Officer William McEntee in 2005. A special prosecutor appointed to look into the case had urged the court to halt the death sentence, citing concerns about racial bias. Johnson is Black and McEntee was white. (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP, File)

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FILE - This undated photo provided by The Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Stephen Barbee, a Texas death row inmate. Barbee, seeking to stop his execution over claims of religious freedom violations and indifference to his medical needs, is scheduled to die Wednesday evening, Nov. 16, 2022, for killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son more than 17 years ago. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP, File)

Texas executes man for killing ex-girlfriend and her son, 7

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry shows Murray Hooper. Hooper is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Nov. 16, 2022, for his convictions in the 1980 killings of Pat Redmond and his mother-in-law, Helen Phelps, in Phoenix. On Monday, Nov. 14 a federal judge denied Hooper's bid to postpone the execution. (Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry via AP, File)

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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry shows Murray Hooper. Hooper is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Nov. 16, 2022, for his convictions in the 1980 killings of Pat Redmond and his mother-in-law, Helen Phelps, in Phoenix. On Monday, Nov. 14 a federal judge denied Hooper's bid to postpone the execution. (Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry via AP, File)

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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry shows Murray Hooper. Hooper is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Nov. 16, 2022, for his convictions in the 1980 killings of Pat Redmond and his mother-in-law, Helen Phelps, in Phoenix. On Monday, Nov. 14 a federal judge denied Hooper's bid to postpone the execution. (Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry via AP, File)

Judge keeps Arizona execution plan on track for Wednesday

Japanese Justice Minister Yasuhiro Hanashi bows at a parliamentary session at the Upper House in Tokyo, Friday, Nov. 11, 2022. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has decided to delay his departure Friday to southeast Asia to attend triple summits, apparently to sack his justice minister over his remark that his job makes news only when he signs executions. (Kyodo News via AP)

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This photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Kevin Johnson. The Missouri man sentenced to death for killing a police officer in a fit of rage over his brother's death is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution planned for later this month, in part because the man was a teenager at the time of the killing. (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP)

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This booking photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Corrections via their Flickr page shows Byron Black. Tennessee's conservative attorney general and Nashville's liberal district attorney are at odds over the possible commutation of a death sentence, in this case whether an inmate is intellectually disabled, precluding him from being executed. The case involves Black, a 66-year-old inmate convicted in the 1988 shooting deaths of girlfriend Angela Clay, 29, and her two daughters, Latoya, 9, and Lakeisha, 6. (Tennessee Department of Corrections via AP)

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FILE - This undated photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry shows prisoner Murray Hooper, who is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Nov. 16, 2022, for his convictions in the 1980 killings of Pat Redmond and his mother-in-law, Helen Phelps, in Phoenix. On Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022, the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency declined to recommend to Gov. Doug Ducey that Hooper's death sentence be reduced to life in prison. The decision marks one of the last steps before Hooper's execution. (Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry via AP, File)

Arizona death row prisoner’s clemency bid rejected by board

FILE - This Feb. 19, 2021, photo provided by Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Richard Glossip. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt granted another temporary reprieve to death row inmate Glossip on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022, pushing his scheduled execution back until February 2023 so that an appeals court has more time to consider his claim of innocence. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP, File)

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Lawyers for Arizona inmate facing execution file new appeal

FILE - A sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons is displayed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, July 6, 2020. Oklahoma is suing the Federal Bureau of Prisons for custody of a state death row inmate who the bureau is refusing to transfer, with the state saying the man's scheduled execution cannot be carried out in December if he is not returned soon. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Oklahoma sues federal prisons for inmate it wants to execute

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry shows prisoner Murray Hooper, who is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Nov. 16, 2022, for his convictions in the 1980 killings of William "Pat" Redmond and Helen Phelps in Phoenix. On Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022, Hooper's attorneys said their client declined to pick an execution method when officials asked him if he wanted to die by lethal injection or gas chamber. (Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry via AP, File)

Arizona prisoner to die by lethal injection, not gas chamber

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry shows prisoner Murray Hooper, who is scheduled to be executed on Nov. 16, 2022, for his convictions in the killings of Pat Redmond and Helen Phelps in Phoenix. On Wednesday, Oct. 19 a lawyer for Hooper asked a judge to order fingerprint and DNA tests on evidence from the two killings in December 1980. (Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry via AP, File)

Inmate’s failed testing bid keeps Arizona execution on track

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Oklahoma State Department of Corrections shows Benjamin Robert Cole Sr. Oklahoma executed Cole, Thursday morning, Oct. 20, 2022, despite claims from his attorneys that he had been severely mentally ill. Cole was convicted of killing his infant daughter in 2002. (Oklahoma State Department of Corrections via AP, File)

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FILE - This undated photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry shows prisoner Murray Hooper, who is scheduled to be executed on Nov. 16, 2022, for his convictions in the killings of Pat Redmond and Helen Phelps in Phoenix. On Wednesday, Oct. 19 a lawyer for Hooper asked a judge to order fingerprint and DNA tests on evidence from the two killings in December 1980. (Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry via AP, File)

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FILE - This undated photo provided by the Oklahoma State Department of Corrections shows Benjamin Robert Cole Sr. The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a last-minute appeal filed by Oklahoma death row inmate Benjamin Cole. The high court's decision on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022 paves the way for the 57-year-old to be executed Thursday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. (Oklahoma State Department of Corrections via AP, File)

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