Okla. — John Marion Grant of Osage County was executed Thursday afternoon for the 1998 murder of Gay Carter, a prison cafeteria worker at…

John William Hummel, 45, has been executed by the state of Texas. Prison officials adopted a new procedure for media witnesses to Texas executions. Correcting an error prison officials made last month, media witnesses will now be under constant supervision by a correctional officer to make sure they are brought into the execution chamber. — Texas — The Huntsville Item has reported that John William Hummel, 45, had been executed by the state of Texas at 6:49 p.m. CST on June 30, 2021. He was executed by lethal injection inside the execution chamber at the Huntsville “Walls” Unit in Huntsville, Texas. Hummel was the second…

The first state execution was carried out in May after 10 months. Other headlines were made from America’s death row this month. Here are some of the notable events. — THE IMPORTANT MOMENTS 05/03, Supreme Court — The first out of three dates in which the Supreme Court decided petitions for a writ of certiorari in capital cases. The following death row prisoners exhausted their appeals on the 3rd:

Quintin Phillippe Jones, 41, has been executed by the state of Texas. Not much information about the execution is known, witnesses were not allowed into the chamber due to a communication error between prison officials. — Texas — It was reported by the Huntsville Item that the execution of Quintin Jones, 41, by lethal injection was completed at 6:40 p.m. CST on May 19, 2021. Jones’s execution was the first state execution of 2021 and the first state execution in 315 days. Billy Joe Wardlow’s execution…

After exhausting his appeals in November 2020, the state of Idaho has been searching for an execution warrant for Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. ever since. They finally got it, but Pizzuto is in hospice care — UPDATE, 5/18/21: Gerald Pizzuto Jr. has been granted a stay by the Idaho district court for the 2nd district to allow time for a clemency hearing. The hearing is scheduled for the Idaho Commission of Pardons and Parole’s November 2021 hearing session.

In 2021’s third consecutive month without an execution anywhere in the U.S., there were some notable moments. This is what happened this month. — THE IMPORTANT MOMENTS 04/03, Oklahoma — Derrick Laday was sentenced to death despite Laday being confident about being able to convince a jury while representing himself in court. Laday was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Dennis Johnson Jr. in Oklahoma city in 2015.

Attorney General Mark Brnovich filed orders last week to move forward with the execution process of two offenders on Arizona’s death row. — Ariz. — Back in August 2020, the ADCRR (Arizona Department Of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry) found a lawful manufacturer of pentobarbital to use in lethal injection executions and ordered the drugs from them. In October 2020, Mark Brnovich wrote a letter to the governor saying that his office had also…

The second consecutive month without and execution in the U.S. has come to a closing. It’s time to look at what has happened this month. — THE IMPORTANT MOMENTS 03/01, Supreme Court: The first out of four dates this month in which the Supreme Court decided petitions for a writ of certiorari for death row inmates. The following death row prisoners exhausted their appeals on the 1st: Deondre Staten (Calif.)

Clark County prosecutors are trying to acquire a death warrant for a death row prisoner at Ely State Prison after exhausting his appeals last November. — UPDATE, 4/14/21: Clark County prosecutors formally requested an execution warrant for Floyd today. Meanwhile, the state assembly passed A.B. 395, the death penalty repeal bill, yesterday, moving on to the state senate for decision. The senate has a democratic majority with support mostly coming from democrats. The bill may pass…