TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - A Florida man convicted of killing eight people, including two teenagers, during the 1970s is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday after an appeals court rejected his lawyers' claims that he is mentally insane. Full story
(Reuters) - A South Dakota inmate, who killed a prison guard during a failed escape attempt, has been scheduled to die by lethal injection in October in what would be the state's first execution in five years, officials said on Friday. Full story
ATLANTA (Reuters) - The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday granted a stay of execution to a two-time murderer hours before he was due to become the state's first inmate to undergo lethal injection using one drug instead of three. Full story
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Georgia is scheduled to execute a two-time murderer on Monday in the state's first lethal injection using one drug instead of three, a switch the condemned inmate's lawyers are challenging as being too abrupt. Full story
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles prosecutors asked a judge on Wednesday to order the execution of two condemned killers using a single drug for lethal injections, a move intended to end a 6-year hold on the death penalty in California over the method used by the state. Full story
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A convicted Oklahoma killer who was spared execution once but asked for a new trial and was sentenced to death a second time was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday. Full story
Henry Curtis Jackson Jr. died by lethal injection on Tuesday, June 5, 2012, for the stabbing deaths of his two nieces and two nephews, ages 2 to 5, in 1990.
Henry Curtis Jackson, seen in this April 11, 2008 photograph from the Mississippi Department of Corrections, is scheduled to be executed on June 5, 2012 for the 1990 murders of four of his young nieces and nephews. Jackson, called "Curtis" by his family, is to be put to death by lethal injection at
