Oklahoma can move forward with its controversial lethal-injection drug, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday. Justice Samuel Alito Jr., writing for the majority, said prisoners who challenged the ...

When the U.S. Supreme Court last examined a lethal injection procedure, it credited the states with demonstrating an "earnest desire to provide for a progressively more humane manner of death." But ...

BALTIMORE, Nov. 15 -- An attorney for a condemned man said in federal court Wednesday that Maryland's method of execution risks causing excruciating but undetectable pain and would not be permitted ...

Christa Pike's execution under Dr. Mark Fowler despite Tony Carruthers' failed attempt . BY: WBIR Channel 10/YOUTUBE A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Little is known about how Indiana acquired pentobarbital, a drug that state officials have used twice for executions in the last ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor expressed concerns about Florida’s lethal injection procedure on Tuesday, urging more transparency as the Supreme Court denied a man’s emergency bid to avoid execution later in ...

A man in Tennessee is set to be executed in Nashville Thursday morning, August 13, for the first time since the failed May 21 lethal injection attempt of a Memphis man. Anthony Darrell Hines is facing ...

Inmate Charles Warner, the second of two Oklahoma death row prisoners originally scheduled to die on April 29th, won't go to the lethal injection chamber until at least November 13th. That's thanks to ...

The US Supreme Court is under increasing pressure to consider halting death sentences by lethal injection after a convicted Arizona killer took two hours to die. Opponents and supporters of capital ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With just weeks until Indiana's third scheduled execution in less than a year, debate continues around the state's supply of ...