Medical experts and death row inmates file legal briefs challenging legality of Arizona's execution drugs ahead of March ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was killed via lethal injection on Wednesday evening - the second execution in the country this ...

A lethal injection expert has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to deny the attorney general's request for an execution warrant for Aaron Gunches, citing concerns about the state's death penalty ...

Republican lawmakers in Idaho are considering going back to the firing squad after the execution of a convicted serial killer via lethal injection completely failed last year. State ...

Under those guidelines, lethal injections of companion or laboratory animals are limited to injection by qualified personnel of certain clinically tested, Food and Drug Administration-approved ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction on Thursday released a redacted version of the new lethal injection protocol it created after a multi-year review of its execution process. The 44-page ...

Just days before President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office, the Department of Justice has announced its decision to withdraw the federal government’s lethal injection protocol on the ...

Friday’s execution was the third in South Carolina since September as the state ended a 13-year pause in executions caused in part because they couldn’t obtain lethal injection drugs.

PHOENIX — Calling the current system inhumane, a lawmaker wants to ask Arizona voters to approve firing squads to execute condemned inmates, replacing the lethal injection method. The proposal ...