Accusing the state of “reckless maladministration” of the lethal-injection process, an attorney for condemned killer Ronald ...

Texas carried out the nation’s first execution of the year, putting to death a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in a 1998 double murder.

Sen. Mike Young said the bill would provide the IDOC with an option if lethal injection drugs are unavailable. Those who ...

Capital punishment remains legal throughout much of the United States. However, the form of execution does vary. These are ...

ATMORE, AL -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, was ...

An electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August reportedly showed "sustained cardiac activity" for nearly two minutes after Byron Black was ...

Samuel Lee Smithers, 72, was executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening at Florida State Prison, marking the state’s 14th execution of 2025, a new record, the Associated Press reported. Smithers was ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday said he will not intervene to stop the execution of Harold Wayne Nichols. Nichols, 64, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday said he will not intervene to stop the execution of Harold Wayne Nichols. Nichols, 64, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State Community ...

The problem is that the government is not ready to evolve, the Supreme Court observed on Wednesday after the Centre said it may not be “very feasible” to give the option to death row convicts to ...