In this interview, law professor Corinna Barrett Lain discusses her book 'Secrets of the Killing State,' which exposes the ...

Harold Wayne Nichols, a death row inmate in Tennessee, has declined to select his preferred execution method for his scheduled December 11 death. That means that the state will proceed with lethal ...

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal ...

(Associated Press) — Sixteen men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 12 other people are scheduled to be put to death in nine states during the remainder of 2025.

ATMORE, Ala. -- Thirteen minutes into his execution by injection, an Alabama inmate heaved and coughed and appeared to move during tests meant to determine consciousness. Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, ...

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 ...