lethal injection

A former Houston police officer was executed on Tuesday for hiring two people to murder his estranged wife over 30 years ago. Robert Fratta, 65, was executed by lethal injection ...

After announcing last week that leadership changes would be made at the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) following major ...

Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) officials failed to follow their own protocols in several executions and planned executions ...

Mississippi is set to execute only the second person in the past decade on Dec. 14, a date ...

Oregon Gov.Kate Brown announced on Dec. 13 that 17 inmates awaiting execution will instead have their death sentences changed ...

PHOENIX—An Arizona prisoner who is scheduled to be executed in three weeks for two 1980 killings will be ...

The story is without a happy ending for most prisoners sitting on death row in the United States. But ...

McALESTER, Okla.—Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for a 1997 killing. James Coddington, 50, received a lethal injection at ...

An Arizona man convicted of killing a college student in 1978 was put to death Wednesday after a ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday granted a stay of execution for a woman who was ...

PHOENIX—Arizona remains on track, at least for now, to use the death penalty for the first time in ...

A death row inmate was put to death late Thursday after the Supreme Court overturned a lower court ...

PARCHMAN, Miss.—A man who pleaded guilty to killing his estranged wife and sexually assaulting her young daughter as ...

ATMORE, Ala.—An Alabama man who avoided execution in February was put to death Thursday for the 1991 murder ...

A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration's plan to resume executions of federal death row ...

A Dallas man was executed Thursday evening for a shooting in which he killed his wife, two children ...

Corrections officials in Georgia are preparing to execute a man convicted of fatally shooting a convenience store clerk ...

A Tennessee man who was convicted of killing two people 34 years ago was put to death on ...

A Texas man was put to death on Sept. 26 for the torture and killing of a woman ...

The state of Arizona has eliminated its use of the sedative midazolam as one of the drugs it ...

    As the nation is horrified by another botched execution, a capital defense lawyer in Texas, legal ...

The preferred method of execution in the United States, the lethal injection, is being intensely scrutinized in the wake of a ...

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has just released the timeline of events leading up to Clayton Lockett’s botched execution ...

I've always found it quite interesting--and somewhat puzzling--that certain issues are always linked politically, even though they may ...

Lethal injection is the leading method of execution in the United States, but a sedative found in some ...