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A blog produced by the Oregon Justice Resource Center discussing the death penalty (capital punishment) in Oregon and in the Ninth Circuit.
Delaware executes Shannon Johnson
Lee Hulteng color Illustration of man's forearm strapped to execution table with shadow of scales of justice in background.
Delaware executed Shannon Johnson. TheDepartment of Corrections says 28-year-old Shannon Johnson was pronounced dead early Friday at 2:55 a.m.
Shannon Johnson waived his right to further appeals and sought to speed his execution has been put to death by lethal injection. “The execution came after a federal appeals court overturned a judge’s decision halting the execution in response to a last-minute effort by federal public defenders to spare his life.”
Shannon Johnson is the 15th person put to death this year and the 1,292nd person executed in the U.S. since 1976.
The Oregon Justice Resource Center opposes the death penalty (capital punishment) in all circumstances. The death penalty is the ultimate, irreversible denial of civil liberties.
Previous Posts
- Under Construction
- Oklahoma executes James Lewis DeRosa
- Texas executes Elroy Chester
- Florida executes William Van Poyck
- Oral Argument: State of Oregon v. Michael Spencer Washington, Jr.(6/4/13)
- RONALD DEERE V. VINCE CULLEN (9th Circuit) 6/3/13
- California update 5/30 (California’s death penalty on hold again)
- Florida executes Elmer Carroll
- Nevada Update 5/29 (Death penalty audit clears Nev. Senate panel)
- Texas executes Jeffrey Demond Williams
