“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, ...

Amid growing concerns over the availability of lethal injection drugs, Florida lawmakers are advancing new legislation that ...

Arizona resumed executions Wednesday morning, after a 2-year moratorium that was prompted by three botched executions ...

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

Aaron Gunches, who had dropped legal efforts to halt his execution, was sentenced to death for the 2002 murder of Ted Price, ...

Twenty-eight states as well as the U.S. military and U.S. government authorize the use of lethal injection, in which an ...

Edward James, 63, was executed by the State of Florida on Thursday for the 1993 murders of 8-year-old Toni Neuner and her grandmother, 58-year-old Betty Dick.

Five states authorize the firing squad as an execution method. Arizona could join the ranks if lawmakers decide to send the matter to voters in 2026.

Wendell Grissom, the death row inmate, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. A prison official told the Associated Press that Grissom, 56, was pronounced ...

Oklahoma executed a man Thursday morning 20 years after he murdered a woman during a home invasion and robbery.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging.

Nine inmates on Tennessee’s death row have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new lethal injection protocol citing a high risk of torturous death and what they say is a history of ...