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

Arizona's botched executions have sparked a national debate over the use of lethal injections, with questions raised about ...

Senate Bill 11 was introduced as lethal injection drugs have become more expensive and hard to get, leading some states to turn to other methods.

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...