Death penalty

FILE - Utah State Prison's execution chamber is seen during a media tour Jan. 24, 1996, in Point of the Mountain, Utah. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2017 file photo, a blindfolded suspected Islamic State militant stands against a wall at a Kurdish screening center in Dibis, Iraq. An analysis by the Associated Press of a spreadsheet listing all 27,849 people imprisoned in Iraq as of late January 2018, shows that Iraq has detained or imprisoned more than 19,000 people accused of connections to IS or other terror-related offenses. More than 3,000 people have been sentenced to death. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen, File)

From left: Georgia death row inmates Kelly Gissendaner, J.W. Ledford Jr. and Troy Davis, all of whom had their death chamber statements recorded before execution.

Larry Greene, public information director of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, demonstrates how a curtain is pulled between the death chamber and witness room at the prison in Lucasville, Ohio, November 2005. Ohio is one of several states that have used midazolam as part of an execution by lethal injection. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

Media witnesses, including AP Oklahoma City reporter Sean Murphy, center, speak early Friday morning, April 21, 2017, about the overnight execution of Ledell Lee in Varner, Ark. At left is John Moritz of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, with Marine Glisovic of KATV, right. Lee was the first inmate put to death in Arkansas since 2005. (AP Photo/Kelly P. Kissel)