In this interview, law professor Corinna Barrett Lain discusses her book 'Secrets of the Killing State,' which exposes the troubling realities behind lethal injection as a method of execution. Lain, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee executed an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his heart when the lethal ...

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 ...

Mississippi allows execution by firing squad, but has never used this method. Richard Jordan, Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection.

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of the 1979 killing a 6-year-old girl who was abducted from her bedroom was put to death Thursday evening in a record 16th execution in Florida this year. Bryan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On May 22, Oscar Smith, who was convicted of killing his wife and her two teenage sons, was executed in Tennessee by lethal ...

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal injection, drawn up almost a decade later, takes up just two sentences. The ...

On May 22, Oscar Smith, who was convicted of killing his wife and her two teenage sons, was executed in Tennessee by lethal injection. The state used the chemical pentobarbital only instead of the ...