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

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

A Chancery Court judge says the state must disconnect the heart defibrillator shortly before the inmate's August execution to ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Alabama will move forward with its first execution by lethal injection—following an eight-month pause due to previous failed attempts—at 6 p.m. CDT Thursday evening after an appeals court said ...