Lawyers for a Florida man on death row are seeking to halt his execution set for next week, arguing that his obesity could ...

Lawyers for convicted murderer Michael Tanzi say that his weight and health conditions could cause a lethal injection ...

A Florida death row inmate who was convicted of kidnapping and killing a woman in 2000 is asking the court to show him ...

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

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

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

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

Nine Tennessee death row inmates have filed a lawsuit against the state's new lethal injection protocol, claiming that the ...

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.

The morning execution of Aaron Gunches by lethal injection at the Florence state prison on March 19 had no such issues. Gunches, who wore a white jumpsuit with white socks, was pronounced dead at ...

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

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