Lawyers for a Florida man on death row are seeking to halt his execution set for next week, arguing that his obesity could ...

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

Lawyers for convicted murderer Michael Tanzi say that his weight and health conditions could cause a lethal injection ...

Ohio lawmakers are trying to end the state’s years-long moratorium on executions by seeking federal help with obtaining ...

A Florida death row inmate who was convicted of kidnapping and killing a woman in 2000 is asking the court to show him ...

A death row inmate's lawyers filed documents requesting that their client be exempt from lethal injection due to his morbid obesity.

A bill could make firing squads and lethal gas options in Florida executions as a shortage of pentobarbital, used for lethal ...

Wendell Grissom, the death row inmate, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. A prison official told the Associated Press that Grissom, 56, was pronounced ...

People sentenced to death in Florida could be executed by firing squads, nitrogen gas or other methods under a bill that ...

Oklahoma executed a man Thursday morning 20 years after he murdered a woman during a home invasion and robbery.

The state currently has 45 men and one woman on death row. With the challenges of finding lethal injection drugs, some states are considering gas chambers and firing squads. The family of Angela ...