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

A group of Tennessee Republican senators is urging the governor to commission an independent review of a failed execution and ...

The senators said they support the death penalty but are concerned about what they called the state’s failure to carry out a ...

Correction officials confirmed Westville can accommodate firing squad executions as lawmakers, governor and the U.S. Justice ...

The state will still allow lethal injection for death-row prisoners if it's not possible to use the firing squad.

Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol adopted a year-and-a-half ago appears to include reduced training in IV placement. That ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Carruthers, who was sentenced to death for a 1994 triple murder, survived his date ...

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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 ...

The first and only time Tiana Broadnax physically touched her husband, he lay dead on a gurney. James Broadnax had just been ...

As Indiana lawmakers prepare to revive debates over capital punishment methods, corrections officials have confirmed that the ...