Attorneys for an Alabama death row inmate who successfully challenged Alabama’s nitrogen gas execution protocol last month ...

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward.

The state can’t execute Jeffery Lee by lethal injection, argued his lawyers, because of a deal they made in a separate case ...

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee is standing by Tennessee’s protocol for lethal injection following the botched execution of Tony ...

Louisiana has resumed executions using a novel nitrogen gas method — a legacy, in part, of problems getting the drugs used for lethal injections. But the injection method remains on the books in the ...

Florida executed its oldest inmate on Thursday, continuing a sharp increase in executions under Gov. Ron DeSantis.

In a lawsuit, convicted killer Christa Pike is arguing Tennessee's lethal injection procedure would be cruel and unusual punishment.

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. Lethal injection ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A federal judge Wednesday refused to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days, saying the prisoner's lawyers didn't have evidence there were ...

On March 25th, the Public Policy Program hosted a conversation with Corinna Barrett Lain, graduate of the W&M class of 1992 and author of Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal ...

Background: Lethal injection for execution was conceived as a comparatively humane alternative to electrocution or cyanide gas. The current protocols are based on one improvised by a medical examiner ...

Most US executions are beset by procedural problems that could lead to insufficient anesthesia in executions. This hypothesis has been supported by findings of low postmortem blood thiopental levels ...