Attorneys appealed to the Tennessee governor to pause all executions until next year to allow for courts to review a new ...

While manufacturers of FDA-approved injectable pentobarbital are warning states not to use the sedative in executions, some ...

A man convicted of killing two women has been scheduled for execution in Florida. The death warrant signed Tuesday by Republican Gov.

McVeigh was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. After his trial, ...

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

Tennessee has paid nearly $600,000 for lethal injection drugs in recent years, but the details are shrouded in secrecy.

A federal judge will hear arguments Tuesday morning in a lawsuit brought by three news organizations that say Idaho prison ...

A Florida death row inmate, Michael Tanzi, who local authorities referred to as a “fledging serial killer,” is set to be ...

“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, creates a high risk that a person receiving a lethal injection ...

A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago. It is the second time the ...

The choice to die by firing squad – rather than lethal injection or the electric chair – was Mahdi’s own, his attorney said last month: “Faced with barbaric and inhumane choices ...