Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call ...
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, ...
In this interview, law professor Corinna Barrett Lain discusses her book “Secrets of the Killing State,” which exposes the troubling realities behind lethal injection as a method of execution. Lain, a ...
A bill allowing for firing squad executions for death penalty inmates was filed in the Indiana legislature for the 2026 session. Senate Bill 11, filed by State Sen. Michael Young, would allow for ...
Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal injection, drawn up almost a decade later, takes up just two sentences. The ...
Tennessee plans to execute Harold Wayne Nichols for a 1988 murder amid controversy over lethal injection methods, echoing broader debates on capital punishment. Trump expected to sign executive order ...