Accusing the state of “reckless maladministration” of the lethal-injection process, an attorney for condemned killer Ronald ...

Arizona's botched executions have sparked a national debate over the use of lethal injections, with questions raised about ...

South Carolina has put inmate Marion Bowman Jr. to death in the state’s third execution since September.

An electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August reportedly showed "sustained cardiac activity" for nearly two minutes after Byron Black was ...

Arizona is set to kill its second death row prisoner this year, but experts warn his execution could be torturous. On Friday, the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry will ...

A Tennessee death row inmate is set to be executed on Thursday for the 1988 rape and murder of a Chattanooga State University student. Harold Wayne Nichols will be put to death via lethal injection.

ATMORE, AL -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, was ...

Sen. Mike Young said the bill would provide the IDOC with an option if lethal injection drugs are unavailable. Those who oppose the bill argue it's unnecessary, inhumane and could invite lawsuits over ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday said he will not intervene to stop the execution of Harold Wayne Nichols. Nichols, 64, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday ...

CHICAGO — An Indiana man convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl was set to die by lethal injection early Friday in the state’s third execution since resuming capital punishment last ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State Community ...