More than 2 years after Tennessee abruptly halted the execution of inmate Oscar Smith — admitting that correction officials were not following their own execution protocols — the state has announced a ...

Executions in the US are becoming increasingly cruel, with states adopting new methods such as nitrogen hypoxia and lethal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When South Carolina executes a man for the first time in more than a decade this Friday, the state will use the most common method ...

HOUSTON (AP) — South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in nearly 15 years. Since the Supreme Court lifted ...

Picture of the Florida State Capitol taken from South Monroe Street. HOUSTON – Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman ...

The U.S. Supreme Court took up a constitutional challenge to lethal injections Monday, agreeing to decide how far states must go to reduce the risk of excruciating pain during an execution. The ...

Oklahoma’s use of a three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday following a lawsuit from nearly 30 people on death row challenging the protocol. The suit, ...

Four days after a federal court ruled against death row inmates arguing Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol is cruel and unusual, the state’s attorney general asked for more than two dozen executions ...

This article reports on development of a shortcut method that minimizes the calculation steps for obtaining the inhibitor concentration and injection rate required to depress hydrate formation to a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HOUSTON (AP) — South Carolina is preparing ...