When South Carolina executes a man for the first time in more than a decade this Friday, the state will use the most common method of execution in the United States. Convicted murderer Freddie Owens ...

An attorney for the first person likely to be executed in South Carolina in 13 years has chosen lethal injection for his method of death. The selection was made Friday by one of his attorneys, Emily ...

The first U.S. execution by lethal injection took place 40 years ago, when Texas put to death Charles Brooks Jr. for the murder of a mechanic. Proponents of the lethal injection method had called it a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for six death row inmates out of appeals in South Carolina are asking the state Supreme Court to give full consideration to the state's new lethal injection rules as well ...

Lawyers for a group of death row inmates who have run out of appeals are expected to argue to the South Carolina Supreme Court that two of the state's execution methods — the electric chair, which is ...

Oklahoma’s use of a three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday following a lawsuit from nearly 30 people on death row challenging the protocol. The suit, ...

Convicted murderer, 56-year-old Darryl Barwick, is scheduled for execution on May 3 at Florida State Prison in Raiford. He is the third death row inmate to be executed so far this year and like the ...

Montgomery, Alabama — Alabama won't seek another lethal injection date for an inmate whose September execution had been halted because of problems establishing an intravenous line, according to the ...

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A federal judge in Oklahoma on Monday ruled the state's three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional, paving the way for the state to request execution dates for more than two dozen death row ...