A federal judge in Ohio has rejected the state's three-drug lethal injection protocol on the grounds that one of the drugs, the sedative midazolam, is not sufficiently humane in its effects. The drug ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the use of a controversial drug for lethal injection in executions. The ruling was 5-4. While Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote the principle descent, ...

Melvin Trotter was executed last night, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a last-minute stay of execution. The executive director of Floridians for alternatives to the death penalty, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection before his Dec.

A Florida man convicted of killing a grocery store owner was executed Tuesday, marking the second execution in the state this year.

Back in 2012, the Arkansas Supreme Court struck down the state's lethal injection protocol, saying the Legislature had ceded too much power over the process to the Arkansas Department of Correction.

Tennesseans could get a first look into the state’s embattled lethal injection protocol soon following a judge’s ruling in Knox County. The Tennessee Department of Correction closely guarded ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Christa Gail Pike — who was sentenced to death as a teen for the brutal 1995 murder of 19-year-old ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An electrocardiogram monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two minutes after Byron Black was ...