Eight days before Tennessee is scheduled to execute another death row inmate, the state's high court met to determine if the lethal injection officials will use to kill him will illegally torture him ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The lethal injection protocol that was used in 2018 to execute a Nebraska prisoner withstood a legal challenge Friday from death penalty opponents who hoped to prevent the state ...

LINCOLN (CN) – The Nebraska Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the state’s controversial protocol for lethal injection executions Friday, finding the plaintiffs lack standing to sue. “The ...

FILE- In this Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015 file photo, federal public defender Dale Baich, right, one of the attorneys for death row inmate Richard Glossip, talks with the media outside the Oklahoma ...

The U.S. Supreme Court made the right decision Wednesday when it voted 7-2 against a challenge to the most common method of lethal injections. Executions across the country had been on hold since ...

Lawyers for Zane Floyd, scheduled to die in fewer than 40 days for a massacre at a Las Vegas grocery store, say an untested combination of drugs planned for his lethal injection would amount to cruel ...

The commonwealth’s authority to buck federal law and legalize drug-injection consumption sites dominated a legislative hearing Monday, as some health-care providers and local officials insisted that ...