Attorneys appealed to the Tennessee governor to pause all executions until next year to allow for courts to review a new ...

The proposed law heads to Gov. Brad Little’s desk for his consideration, likely ending an Idaho Supreme Court appeal if he ...

A federal judge in Ohio has rejected the state's three-drug lethal injection protocol on the grounds that one of the drugs, the sedative midazolam, is not sufficiently humane in its effects. The drug ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the use of a controversial drug for lethal injection in executions. The ruling was 5-4. While Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote the principle descent, ...

Melvin Trotter was executed last night, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a last-minute stay of execution. The executive director of Floridians for alternatives to the death penalty, ...

In his complaint, Michael Wade Nance said his veins were so severely compromised that they were likely to blow and cause him ...

An electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August reportedly showed "sustained cardiac activity" for nearly two minutes after Byron Black was ...