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, ...

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

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

Capital punishment remains legal throughout much of the United States. However, the form of execution does vary. These are ...

Before the lethal dose of pentobarbital was given, Thompson asked for forgiveness, while also stating: “There are no winners in this situation, it creates more victims and traumatizes more people 28 ...

Texas carried out the nation’s first execution of the year, putting to death a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in a 1998 double murder.

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

By: Casey Smith Indiana Capital Chronicle For The Republic A bill expanding Indiana’s execution methods was significantly ...

Charles Victor Thompson received a lethal injection Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.

An execution in the state of Alabama is raising more questions about a controversial drug used in lethal injections. Late last night, Alabama executed Ronald Bert Smith, a convicted murderer. In that ...