In one decision, the court allowed death row inmates to file last-minute challenges to lethal injection.
Taiwan has executed six death row inmates, the first use of the death penalty this year.
Dahlia, what exactly do these death row inmates say is the matter with the lethal injection process?
According to the state-run Central News Agency, there are a total of 55 death row inmates following the executions.
The measure would see death row inmates have their sentences commuted to life.
In a second decision, the justices made it easier for death row inmates to challenge their convictions with new evidence.
O'Malley will make a case-by-case decision regarding the state's five current death row inmates, according to a statement from the governor's office.
Some members of the Vietnamese government have proposed a return to firing squads to deal with the build-up of death row inmates.
Fully 70% of death row inmates executed in the state are minorities.
Last year, nine prisoners on death row were executed by firing squad, with the president vowing to kill all death row inmates within weeks.
But three years ago he halted executions, after courts found that 13 death row inmates had been wrongly convicted since Illinois resumed capital punishment in 1977.
Reprieve, a legal charity which campaigns against death row, intervened after being contacted by lawyers for two death row inmates, Ralph Baze in Kentucky and Edmund Zagorski in Tennessee.
Robinson is among 157 death row inmates -- 83 blacks, 63 whites and 12 other ethnicities -- who filed appeals under the Racial Justice Act, according to records from the North Carolina Department of Public Safety.
Ms. LITHWICK: Well, what he says is he's very concerned, and it's important to bear in mind he has rejected such claims before, he's saying that recent accounts of death row inmates who suffer episodes of very heavy breathing, of heaving chests, long, long periods of time when it's clear that they are not yet anesthetized, concerns him, and he cited specifically the Stanley Tookie Williams execution.
The ministry said there were now 50 death-row inmates in the island's jails.
Enacted in 2009, the law lets death-row inmates challenge their sentence (though not the underlying conviction) on grounds of racial bias.
The coroner has said autopsy results could be used to defend lawsuits filed by death-row inmates who allege mistreatment or abuse.
Activists say Taiwan breaks international treaty obligations because it provides no procedures for death-row inmates to seek a pardon or commutation of their sentence.
Mr Dow is unable to save Quaker, largely because the case was badly mishandled by his initial lawyer, a common predicament for death-row inmates.
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The best-known example of this was the decision in January of the departing Republican governor of Illinois, George Ryan, to commute the death sentences of 167 death-row inmates to life imprisonment.
The understandable concern about miscarriages 107 death-row inmates have had to be released since 1973 masks the fact that, over the past few years, there has been a gradual improvement in the system.
Data from the Death Penalty Information Center shows that at the start of the year the state had 723 inmates on death row.
The state has by far the nation's largest death row population at 727 inmates, but has not carried out an execution since 2005, over continuing legal challenges to the lethal injection procedures.
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Inmates on death row are housed in a prison within a prison, where there are no attempts at rehabilitation, and no educational or training programs.
In 1999, after seven prisoners tried to escape from Huntsville, Willingham and four hundred and fifty-nine other inmates on death row were moved to a more secure facility, in Livingston, Texas.
Advocates of a repeal say Connecticut's current law keeps inmates on death row for extended periods of time, who are often engaged in multiple appeals, and presents taxpayers with far larger costs than if the convict were placed in the general prison population serving a life sentence.
Cornyn's staff has advised defense lawyers for the six inmates now on death row that his office will not oppose efforts to overturn their sentences based on Quijano's testimony.
Singh, a high-profile prisoner on death row for more than 21 years, was attacked by inmates armed with bricks in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail last week.
Singh, a high-profile prisoner on death row for more than 21 years, was attacked by inmates armed with bricks in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail on Friday.
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Yet most indigent inmates, like Willingham, who constitute the bulk of those on death row, lack the resources to track down new witnesses or dig up fresh evidence.
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