Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Little is known about Indiana's protocols for using pentobarbital, a drug used by Department of Correction officials to carry out ...

Discover how a writ of execution enforces judgments, the legal process involved, and which assets are protected under state ...

Major Tennessee news outlets including the company that owns WBIR are pushing to make more of the state's execution process open for public scrutiny. Broadcaster TEGNA Inc., along with the Associated ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Davidson County chancellor has ordered state prison officials to allow official witnesses to see more of the process when an inmate is put to death. Several media groups including ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Attorney General Liz Murrill confirmed Jessie Hoffman had been executed by the state. Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman was scheduled for execution Tuesday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a stay of execution for Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi’s longest-serving death row ...

At least three bills in the 2025 legislative session that began Monday touch on capital punishment, aiming to refine processes amid a press by Louisiana officials to carry out more death sentences.

A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a man scheduled to be put to death next week alleges that Florida prison officials used expired drugs in at least four recent executions. Prison drug supply logs ...