Steven Lawayne Nelson, 37, was convicted for the 2011 killing of Rev. Clint Dobson and put to death on Wednesday.

Steven Lawayne Nelson received a lethal injection Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.

Marion Bowman Jr. dies Jan. 31, becomes third man put to death since South Carolina resumed executions. He was convicted of ...

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Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more ...

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 ...

A legislative proposal to reactivate the death penalty appears to have been short-lived after a bill to allow new methods of lethal injection was narrowly voted down on the House floor on Thursday.

Death by lethal injection looks like the condemned person just went to sleep. But looks can be deceiving. Anesthesiologists know that an overdose of pentobarbital, the barbiturate used for executions ...

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 ...

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