A Davidson County Chancery Court judge says the state of Tennessee must disconnect a death row inmate's heart defibrillator ...

With lethal injection drugs proving both costly and difficult to obtain, a growing number of Republican lawmakers and state ...

A judge is ordering state officials to turn off a death-row inmate's heart-regulating implanted device to avert the risk that ...

A Tennessee judge has ordered the state to disable a death row inmate's heart implant before he undergoes a lethal injection. Byron Black is scheduled to be executed in early August.

State officials spent $1.175 million on lethal injection doses over the past year — $600,000 of which was spent on drugs that ...

Florida is set to execute its eighth inmate in 2025. Since 1939, five people from Treasure Coast have been executed. See how ...

Judge Austin Reeve Jackson set Robert Roberson's execution for Oct. 16, almost exactly a year after the Texas Supreme Court ...

Beshear, a rising star in the Democratic Party, is not a prominent and outspoken abolitionist. In fact, during an October ...

Florida is set to execute its eighth death row inmate in 2025. Methods of execution in the United States vary by state. Which ...

Lethal injection has been the preferred method in the modern era, with 1,428 carried out since 1976. Texas has done the most, killing 593 inmates, according to the Death Penalty Information Center ...

Michael Bernard Bell, who killed two people outside a bar in Florida more than 30 years ago, became the 26th person to be ...

The Supreme Court’s announcement Friday that it would consider lethal injection, potentially reshaping the way executions are carried out in the United States, comes just a week after the ...