Florida executed its oldest inmate on Thursday, continuing a sharp increase in executions under Gov. Ron DeSantis.

TALLAHASSEE – Raising issues about chronic health problems and Florida’s lethal-injection process, attorneys for condemned killer Frank Walls on Wednesday filed an emergency motion asking a federal ...

A federal judge doesn’t plan to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate in two days because the convicted man’s lawyers didn’t have evidence of problems with the state’s lethal injection process ...

The state of Alabama isn’t giving up trying to execute Jeffery Lee, even after the Supreme Court upheld a ruling barring the state from gassing him on Thursday night. Less than 24 hours after the ...

Lethal injection was meant to be humane. The reality is bloody and brutal.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State lawyers want an entire appeals court to review Ohio’s new and twice-rejected lethal injection process as the state struggles to resume executions. The attorney general’s ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A group of news organizations is suing Tennessee’s Department of Corrections commissioner and a prison warden over the limitations the state’s execution methods present to ...

In a lawsuit, convicted killer Christa Pike is arguing Tennessee's lethal injection procedure would be cruel and unusual punishment.

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal ...

Crafty death-row lawyers and bleeding-heart judges get the blame, but the public might just as well point the finger at state government itself for Tennessee's failure to carry out death sentences.