Sentence examples for executing condemned from inspiring English sources

On Monday night, Utah's governor signed into law a bill that makes Utah the only state in the union to allow the firing squad as a method of executing condemned inmates.

Faced with a nationwide scarcity of execution drugs, Utah's governor on Monday signed into law a bill that resurrects the use firing squads as an alternative method of executing condemned inmates.

Judges in several states have started to put up potentially insurmountable roadblocks to the use of lethal injections to execute condemned inmates.

The effect is most pronounced, according to some studies, in Texas and other states that execute condemned inmates relatively often and relatively quickly.

Ohio must stop using a common combination of three chemicals to execute condemned inmates because they may produce excruciating pain, a state court judge there ruled Tuesday.

But beyond that is the more practical question of why all 36 states that use lethal injections to execute condemned inmates are wedded to a cumbersome combination of three chemicals.

PAGE A19 JUDGE ALTERS EXECUTION PROCEDURE A state court judge in Ohio ordered the state to stop using a common combination of three chemicals to execute condemned inmates because they may produce excruciating pain.

A6 NATIONAL A14-18 American Judges Shift On Lethal Injections Citing new evidence suggesting that prisoners have endured agonizing executions, judges in several states have started to put up potentially insurmountable roadblocks to the use of lethal injections to execute condemned inmates.

The State of Missouri, facing a deadline today for changing the way it executes condemned prisoners by lethal injection, told a federal judge last night that it was simply unable to meet his demand that the state hire a board-certified anesthesiologist to oversee executions.

Oklahoma on Friday added the gas chamber to its arsenal of ways to execute condemned killers if lethal injection, which has been plagued by chemical shortages and constitutional challenges, can't be used.

The Sixth and Ninth forts were used as prisons and the Central Archive was located in the Seventh Fort; the Republic's official radio station was based in the fortress; a gas chamber was installed in the gunpowder depot of the First Fort and used to execute condemned prisoners.