The execution early Saturday of Dustin Higgs concludes an unprecedented run of executions since July, when Trump resumed the federal death penalty after a 17-year hiatus.
The new hold on executions came a day after a federal appeals court lifted a hold on the execution of Daniel Lewis Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, which is scheduled for 4 p.m. EDT on Monday.
In a statement to The Associated Press on Wednesday, Noem said the state Board of Pardons and Paroles reviewed Rhines' application for clemency in December and denied it.
An Oklahoma pharmacy has agreed not to provide Missouri with a drug for a scheduled execution next week, but it's unclear whether the decision will delay the lethal injection.
A Wyoming lawmaker is pushing a bill to allow use of the firing squad to execute condemned state inmates if constitutional problems or other issues prevent using lethal injection.
A federal judge has given lawyers until early next year to submit written arguments about whether Wyoming's lone death row inmate should be put to death.
A federal judge has set aside two weeks for a hearing on claims by Wyoming's lone death row inmate that he didn't get a fair trial before a jury sentenced him to death nearly ten years ago.