Indiana is grappling with the high cost and short shelf life of the drug pentobarbital, which is used in executions.

Tennessee officials must deactivate a death-row inmate's implanted heart-regulating device to avert the risk that it might ...

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

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 ...

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.

Michael Bell sought out to kill the man who killed his brother in 1993. Instead, he killed two innocent people.

Twenty years ago, Terri Schiavo, a severely disabled woman reliant on hospital care and a feeding tube, died when her husband ...

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

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