The makers of a lethal-injection drug have become leaders in Arkansas’ death-penalty battle (PFE, MCK)

Thomson Reuters Arkansas’ plan to execute seven men by lethal injection over the course of 10 days in April hit a road block Friday when a federal judge moved to block all of the executions by issuing a restraining order against the state’s use of the drug vecuronium bromide. Arkansas was pushing to carry out […]

The US is no longer among the top 5 death-penalty countries in the world

AP APRIL 12, 2017 —Capital punishment fell by more than one-third around the world last year – and the United States dropped out of the top 5 countries for the first time in a decade. That was the finding of Amnesty International’s annual report on the world’s death sentences and executions in 2016. Compared with 2015, […]