Amid execution, Ronald Heath and Melvin Trotter allege that the Florida Department of Corrections has violated its lethal ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s string of ...

In this interview, law professor Corinna Barrett Lain discusses her book 'Secrets of the Killing State,' which exposes the ...

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal ...

Lawyers for a Florida murderer on death row are trying to halt his scheduled execution, saying his weight and health conditions could lead to a botched lethal injection. In court documents, lawyers ...

Read full article: Man fatally shot in La Marque early Saturday morning, suspect at large Harris County Sheriff's Office says two suspects, Joseph Plattenberg and Jordyn Wells, were arrested and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On May 22, Oscar Smith, who was convicted of killing his wife and her two teenage sons, was executed in Tennessee by lethal ...

Idaho’s stockpile of execution drugs, which is housed at the Idaho state prison complex south of Boise, has cost taxpayers $200,000 over the past two years. All of the hard-to-find chemicals have ...

Two bills pertaining to firing squad executions for death row inmates won’t advance further this session unless the authors ...

Rep. Jim Lucas is exploring legislation to allow for execution by firing squad or gallows, citing the $300,000 cost of lethal injection drugs. While Gov. Mike Braun hasn't endorsed a specific ...

On May 22, Oscar Smith, who was convicted of killing his wife and her two teenage sons, was executed in Tennessee by lethal injection. The state used the chemical pentobarbital only instead of the ...