Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Little is known about Indiana's protocols for using pentobarbital, a drug used by Department of Correction officials to carry out ...

Several news organizations, including Tennessean publisher Gannett, have sued two state corrections officials for greater access to the execution process, much of which is hidden from public view. The ...

Questions remain about Benjamin Ritchie’s execution May 20 after his attorneys reported seeing sudden, unexpected movement during the lethal injection process. But no members of the media were ...

Major Tennessee news outlets including the company that owns WBIR are pushing to make more of the state's execution process open for public scrutiny. Broadcaster TEGNA Inc., along with the Associated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TALLAHASSEE — Accusing the state of “reckless maladministration” of the lethal-injection process, an attorney for condemned killer ...

Billy Leon Kearse, whose execution is set for March 3 at 6:00 PM, filed an emergency motion Wednesday asking the Florida Supreme Court to allow him access to unredacted records from two very recent ...

A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a man scheduled to be put to death next week alleges that Florida prison officials used expired drugs in at least four recent executions. Prison drug supply logs ...

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — On Thursday, Florida is set to execute Frank Athen Walls, a serial killer convicted of three murders who confessed to two more in the Panhandle in the 1980s. Walls' execution ...

State lawmakers and death penalty opponents are urging the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board to grant clemency to death row inmate Kendrick Simpson and to pause executions statewide while cases are ...

(INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — Questions remain about Benjamin Ritchie's early Tuesday execution after his attorneys reported seeing sudden, unexpected movement during the lethal injection process. But ...

Little is known about Indiana’s protocols for using pentobarbital, a drug used by Department of Correction officials to carry out two recent state executions. (Getty Images) Questions remain about ...