Executions in the US have reached a 20 year low in 2014. Botched procedures leading to a horde of legal challenges coupled by a shortage of lethal injections have caused this fall in number of executions. In 2013, thirty five executions were conducted, the lowest number since 1994. The highest execution in any year was […]
Missouri execute inmate with low IQ
Missouri executes inmate on death row. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) announced that he had refused clemency appeal hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected two similar petitions. Paul Goodwin’s execution was contested by His lawyers who said that the 48 year old convict was mentally unstable and therefore not fit to be punished for […]
