Hours later, the supreme court upheld the use of a controversial lethal injection drug, allowing Oklahoma to resume executions for the first time since January.
Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan accounted for more than 90% of the total in Africa, with Nigeria carrying out executions for the first time in eight years.
The US supreme court has approved the use of the controversial sedative midazolam in Oklahoma's execution protocols, paving the way for the state to resume executions for the first time since January.
This article presents the design and implementation of modular customizable event-driven architecture with parallel execution capability for the first time with wireless sensor nodes using stand alone FPGA.
A stay request filed by the woman's lawyers was still pending when officials delayed the execution for the second time.
In the last few months the king has approved an amendment to the constitution to allow civilians to be tried in military courts, executions have resumed (for the first time since 2010), and prison conditions have become much, much worse, with leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab and other prisoners routinely denied adequate medical treatment.
This year, a case from El Paso County resulted in an execution for that county for the first time in 22 years, but rather than send a reporter to Huntsville, some 650 miles away, The El Paso Times quoted extensively from Mr. Graczyk's report.
At least six countries which did not carry out executions in 2014 did so in 2015, including Chad where executions were carried out for the first time in more than a decade.
The decision to postpone Charles Hood's execution marked the first time in Texas, the nation's busiest death penalty state, that those responsible for carrying out the execution were the ones to call it off.
