Condemned inmate worried South Carolina needed 2 lethal injections doses at last execution
Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to die by lethal injection next week want his execution halted so they can get more ...
Trump's Death Penalty Executive Order Aims To Expand Execution
One of the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump amid the flurry of actions on his first day in office yesterday ...
A Circus Elephant Was Publicly Hanged In 1916—The Tragic Tale Of ‘Murderous Mary’
Murderous Mary” was executed in the town of Erwin, Tennessee, more than a century ago, and her saddening story still ...
Tennessee will still use execution drug abandoned by DOJ over ‘unnecessary suffering’ concerns
On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney General told the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons to stop using pentobarbital, the same drug Tennessee selected in its new execution protocol, because it's ...
Secret jars in a prison fridge hold AZ’s lethal injection drugs, and they may be expired
In a locked and alarm-equipped refrigerator at an Arizona Department of Corrections Rehabilitation & Reentry facility in ...
DOJ abandons pentobarbital for executions, same drug chosen by Tennessee last month
The federal government will no longer use pentobarbital in executions due to concerns of "unnecessary pain and suffering," a ...
Drug used in federal executions under Trump may cause 'unnecessary pain and suffering,' Garland says
The pentobarbital protocol was adopted by Bill Barr, attorney general during Trump's first term, to replace a three-drug mix ...