The Department of Justice released a report proposing the reinstatement and expansion of controversial federal execution ...

South Carolina uses two, massive five-gram doses of pentobarbital to execute death row inmates who choose lethal injection. Long hinted at in autopsies, court filings and by attorneys representing the ...

Complications with lethal injections in recent years have led to the revival of execution methods that had been previously abandoned.

The Texas execution chamber in Huntsville. Since returning to the White House this year, President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders. Among them was one calling to restore the federal ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP/WCSC) - The next South Carolina death row inmate set to be executed has selected lethal injection as the method after his lawyers said he was troubled by the last execution by ...

Death penalty illustration by Kagenmi via iStock for WMNF News. Ronald Heath was executed yesterday. Heath’s death warrant was signed on Jan. 9 by Gov. Ron DeSantis. He then filed an appeal with the ...

The Justice Department is also reauthorizing the use of single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital that were used to carry out 13 executions during the first Trump administration — more than ...

Idaho prison officials must let media witnesses at executions watch as lethal injection drugs are prepared and administered to a condemned person, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko on Friday chose to die by lethal injection after his lawyers said he was troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of the ...