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• Pennsylvania challenged over execution drugs secrecy in federal court

  11 Sep 2014: The Guardian and three Pennsylvania newspapers have asked judge to unseal set of legal documents that contain hidden details about the source of state’s lethal injection drugs

• Texas executes Willie Trottie

  11 Sep 2014: Convicted double murderer loses appeals, becoming latest person put to death with lethal injection from unnamed source

• Missouri executes Earl Ringo Jr after rejecting concerns over drugs used

  10 Sep 2014: Confessed double murderer put to death in process that involved midazolam, which is linked to botched executions

• Texas execution on course despite claims that drug supply expired

  9 Sep 2014: Lawyers for Willie Trottie, scheduled to die Wednesday night, question secrecy around drugs and whether they could botch procedure

• Missouri execution contested over drug secrecy and racism claims

  9 Sep 2014: Earl Ringo, convicted by an all-white jury for a double murder, set to be executed Wednesday night with untested drug cocktail

• Oklahoma to upgrade equipment in time for November executions

  8 Sep 2014: Changes announced days after investigation found training errors and equipment failures preceeded botched Lockett execution

• We may never know who witnessed Clayton Lockett's execution

  5 Sep 2014: The report into Oklahoma’s botched execution cited medical failures but kept secret the identities of the 36 witnesses

• Oklahoma executions on hold after release of report on botched injection

  5 Sep 2014: Clayton Lockett took 43 minutes to die because of misplaced IV but no single person blamed and no charges recommended

• Prison warden present at botched execution handed Oklahoma role

  4 Sep 2014: Lance Hetmer, who presided over Joseph Wood’s two-hour execution in July, hired by Oklahoma, where a separate botched execution made headlines in April

• Oklahoma state report on botched lethal injection cites medical failures

  4 Sep 2014: Long-awaited state investigation into execution of Clayton Lockett recommends contingency plan for botched procedures

• Missouri used controversial execution drug midazolam, report finds

  3 Sep 2014: State’s execution protocol allows only for use of pentobarbital but report says sedative that has raised concerns was also used

• Exonerated North Carolina brothers walk free from prison – in pictures

  3 Sep 2014: Two North Carolina brothers were free men on Wednesday after spending more than 30 years behind bars for a murder they did not commit

• US inmates exonerated after 30 years: five questions police must answer

  3 Sep 2014: Henry McCollum and Leon Brown have been cleared in North Carolina after decades in prison. Attention now turns to the initial investigation that put two teenagers away

• DNA clears North Carolina inmates after 30 years in prison

  2 Sep 2014: Half-brothers released after newly discovered evidence clears men in 1983 rape and murder of 11-year-old Sabrina Buie

• DNA evidence could exonerate two in North Carolina death row case

  2 Sep 2014: Intellectually disabled half-brothers face execution and life sentence for brutal 1983 murder but new evidence suggests false confessions

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