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Montana to build multi-use execution chamber

“We are not building an execution chamber,” he said.

“It is a multipurpose room, and it has the ability, should the time ever arise, to function as a makeshift execution chamber.” Read more

California may resume executing prisoners

More than three years after it suspended executions, California is considering whether to resume the practice.

Courts determined that the three-chemical method of lethal injection constituted cruel and unusual punishment because of the pain it inflicted.

Federal Judge Jeremy Fogel — whose ruling halted executions in California — told KPCC’s Patt Morrison that a governor-appointed panel crafted procedures for future executions.

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Gordon Brown leads outcry as China executes British man, Akmal Shaikh

Gordon Brown today led condemnation of China for executing a mentally ill British man who had been convicted of drug smuggling.

Defiant China claim ‘no one has right’ to comment on its judicial sovereignty

Family say they are ‘deeply saddened, stunned and disappointed’

Akmal Shaikh, 53, was put to death by lethal injection just after 4am at Xishan detention centre in the western Urumqi province. Read more