Sentences with phrase «executed by lethal injection»

You see Warden Cain charm a group of faculty and students at the University of Massachusetts as he describes holding the hand of an inmate being executed by lethal injection and adding religious and educational programs to help inmates.

Consequently, Clarence was set free while his co-conspirator was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection.

He was executed by lethal injection in May 2008.

More than 3,700 men and women now reside on America's 39 — one federal and 38 state — death rows; 717 individuals have been executed by lethal injection, electrocution, poison gas, hanging and firing squad since Gary Gilmore's death in 1977, and the 85 individuals put to death last year ranked the United States third in the world, behind China and Saudi Arabia.

In a separate case, Patrick Hannon was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke at 8:50 p.m. local time, said Florida Department of Corrections spokeswoman Ashley Cook.

Not exact matches

The complex is home to the death chamber where all three prisoners executed by the federal government since 1988 have died by lethal injection, including Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

A man convicted of murder in Utah will soon be given the opportunity to choose how he wants to be executed: by lethal injection or by firing squad.

It is the standard for most of the US states that execute prisoners by lethal injection.

Most recently, Arizona inmate Jeffrey Landrigan was executed Tuesday night only after a delay caused by a legal battle over the source and quality of the sodium thiopental used as part of the lethal injection.

Judge Keller refused to allow the attorneys for Michael Richard, scheduled to be executed on the same day, to file pleadings on his behalf, based on a grant of certiorari by the U.S. Supreme Court that same day on the question of the constitutionality of lethal injection.