Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Little is known about how Indiana acquired pentobarbital, a drug that state officials have used twice for executions in the last ...

As Georgia plans for its first execution in two years, a trove of records provides us with new information — and raises new ...

A death row inmate scheduled to die by lethal injection next week is asking a Cobb County court for a new sentencing trial.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Next year marks 200 years since the first known execution in Florida. Capital punishment in Florida has changed dramatically over ...

Attorneys for Frank Walls cited prison drug logs and autopsy records to argue that his Dec. 18 execution could be “disastrous.” The execution chamber is seen at Florida State Prison in Starke. A ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters, despite concerns from his attorneys that a device implanted to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee officials on Thursday called off the lethal injection of Tony Carruthers, who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering three people in 1994, after his executioners tried ...

On the evening of February 24, the state of Florida continued its aggressive use of the death penalty, executing 65-year-old Melvin Trotter at Florida State Prison near Starke. Trotter, who had spent ...

With just weeks until Indiana’s third scheduled execution in less than a year, debate continues around the state’s supply of pentobarbital — and whether the execution drug can be safely used to kill ...