Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, ...

Arizona resumed executions Wednesday morning, after a 2-year moratorium that was prompted by three botched executions ...

Aaron Gunches, who had dropped legal efforts to halt his execution, was sentenced to death for the 2002 murder of Ted Price, ...

A retired judge poured over boxes of records, interviewed dozens of people at the many nexuses of state executions, and ...

Nine inmates on Tennessee’s death row have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new lethal injection protocol citing a high risk of torturous death and what they say is a history of ...

Twenty-eight states as well as the U.S. military and U.S. government authorize the use of lethal injection, in which an ...

Arizona death row prisoners who committed crimes before November 23, 1992 can chose between lethal injection or the heavily disputed gas chamber, which was refurbished in late 2020 and was last ...

A group of nine men on Tennessee's death row filed suit in Davidson County Chancery Court on Friday, challenging the use of ...

Edward James, 63, was executed by the State of Florida on Thursday for the 1993 murders of 8-year-old Toni Neuner and her grandmother, 58-year-old Betty Dick.