Correction officials confirmed Westville can accommodate firing squad executions as lawmakers, governor and the U.S. Justice Department push for changes to protocols ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Some Supreme Court justices had tough questions for a Florida lawyer about whether the state's lethal injection method causes excruciating pain for death row inmates. Justices were ...

Attorneys for death-row inmates asked state officials Wednesday to put off possible changes to North Carolina's execution protocol in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to address the ...

The drug at the heart of a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma isn't a household name for many, but on Wednesday, the powerful sedative was being debated in the Supreme Court as lawyers sparred over ...

Missouri: Michael Worthington, scheduled to die Aug. 6 from a single dose of compounded pentobarbital for the rape and killing of a suburban St. Louis neighbor in 1995. Texas: Willie Trottie, ...

Ricky Bell, warden at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tenn., gives a tour of the prison's execution chamber in 1999. AP Photo/Mark ...