Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A bipartisan panel of criminal justice experts concluded that states should administer capital punishment with a single drug approved by the U.S. government for executions, the Washington Post reports. The legal research team called the Constitution Project released the 165-page study, which also calls for lethal-injection protocols in each of the 35…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The deadly cocktails administered during executions are about to come under fire after a botched lethal injection involving Oklahoma inmate Clayton Lockett on Tuesday. Newsweek reports that a doctor stopped administering the lethal injection about 13 minutes into the procedure after Locket lifted his head and began mumbling. About 40 minutes after…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More is spilling out about Arizona shooter Jared Loughner in the weeks before he went on a shooting spree that would stun the country. The Washington Post’s Sari Horwitz reports that weeks and days before the shooting, Loughner surfed the Internet on his computer “in what investigators believe was an effort…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Convicted D.C. area sniper John Allen Muhammad, who went on a killing spree in 2002, terrorizing the Washington region and sending local and federal law enforcement on a wild manhunt, has a date with death. Prince William County Circuit Judge Mary Grace O’Brien in Northern Virginia on Wednesday set…
