Executions Archives

Execution set for sole Native American on federal death row

Jul 30, 2020

The only Native American on federal death row is scheduled to be executed in late August, the U.S. government announced Wednesday.

By Felicia Fonseca

Egypt executes 7 convicted of killing police officer

Jul 30, 2020

Egypt executed seven people convicted of killing a police officer in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, after a trial that was “marred by serious allegations of torture,” an international rights groups said Wednesday.

By Samy Magdy

Third person executed by US government this week

Jul 18, 2020

The U.S. government on Friday put to death an Iowa chemistry student-turned-meth kingpin convicted of killing five people, capping a week in which the Trump administration restored federal executions after a 17-year hiatus.

By Michael Tarm

Supreme Court order cleared way for second federal execution

Jul 16, 2020

After the Supreme Court cleared the way for the second federal execution in a week, 68-year-old Wesley Purkey was killed by lethal injection at the penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, July 16.

By Carol Zimmermann

Supreme Court allows blocked federal execution to proceed

Jul 14, 2020

In a 2 a.m. decision July 14 after numerous last-minute filings, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to overturn a trial court order blocking the execution of federal death-row inmate Daniel Lewis Lee. The court’s unsigned order enabled federal executions to go forward.

By Carol Zimmermann

New Jersey cardinal asks Trump to grant clemency to federal death-row inmate

Jul 10, 2020

Federal death-row inmate Dustin Lee Honken was convicted of “heinous” crimes but killing him “will do nothing to restore justice or heal those still burdened by these crimes,” Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin said in a July 9 letter to President Donald Trump.

By Catholic News Service