Phenix City, Ala. - On August 13, at 6:16 p.m. CT, child rapist and murderer Jeremy Tremaine Williams was pronounced dead by lethal injection at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore.
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has disqualified the Pinal County Attorney’s Office and the Pinal County Superior Court from trying a high-profile capital murder case plagued by legal scandal. Judge Patricia Starr issued her order Aug. 12. It’s still unclear which county will prosecute the case and where it will be tried, and it’s […]
Starting next summer, Georgia’s highest court will no longer routinely hear appeals in murder cases. The decision was announced Thursday as part of a concurring opinion from Chief Justice Nels Peterson that was tied to a murder case out of Fulton County, Coleman v. The State, though it was not clear why Peterson’s opinion was […]
A Tennessee man scheduled to be executed Thursday night for a 1986 murder is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his claim that he could suffer cruel and unusual punishment because of an “under-skilled” physician in charge of administering lethal drugs. Attorneys for Darrell Hines filed a petition with the nation’s high court Sunday […]
Dehydration was a primary factor in a botched execution that forced Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to call off and postpone a man’s death penalty for a year, a state senator told the Lookout. Republican Sen. Ferrell Haile of Gallatin, who signed a letter seeking an investigation of the failed execution of Tony Carruthers and postponement […]
Around 40 doctors and other medical professionals called on Gov. Bill Lee to pause death penalty executions until the state improves the process. The group, which sent Lee a three-page letter and held a news conference Tuesday, isn’t calling for the end of executions but wants lawmakers to find a way that they can be […]
