Attorneys for an Alabama death row inmate who successfully challenged Alabama’s nitrogen gas execution protocol last month ...

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward.

The state can’t execute Jeffery Lee by lethal injection, argued his lawyers, because of a deal they made in a separate case ...

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee is standing by Tennessee’s protocol for lethal injection following the botched execution of Tony ...

In a lawsuit, convicted killer Christa Pike is arguing Tennessee's lethal injection procedure would be cruel and unusual punishment.

Louisiana has resumed executions using a novel nitrogen gas method — a legacy, in part, of problems getting the drugs used for lethal injections. But the injection method remains on the books in the ...

Florida executed its oldest inmate on Thursday, continuing a sharp increase in executions under Gov. Ron DeSantis.

With lethal injection drugs proving both costly and difficult to obtain, a growing number of Republican lawmakers and state officials are pushing for an alternative: the firing squad. Lethal injection ...

1 Dewitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 2 Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A federal judge Wednesday refused to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days, saying the prisoner's lawyers didn't have evidence there were ...

Most US executions are beset by procedural problems that could lead to insufficient anesthesia in executions. This hypothesis has been supported by findings of low postmortem blood thiopental levels ...