A second death row inmate in South Carolina has chosen execution by firing squad. It comes just weeks after the first ...

Executions in the US are becoming increasingly cruel, with states adopting new methods such as nitrogen hypoxia and lethal ...

States put to death 47 people last year, double the recent norm. What’s behind the rise?

A bungled execution in Oklahoma is providing death penalty opponents with a fresh example of how lethal injections can go wrong. But the odds of successfully challenging the nation’s main form of ...

Myth 6: Some botched executions in which we know the inmate suffered excruciating pain could have been prevented by a better protocol. Seven executions listed on the Death Penalty Information Center ...

A federal judge in Ohio has rejected the state's three-drug lethal injection protocol on the grounds that one of the drugs, the sedative midazolam, is not sufficiently humane in its effects. The drug ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arizona State Sen. Kevin Payne has a very bad idea. Earlier this month, Payne introduced a proposal in the Arizona Senate to ask ...

WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday said the botched execution of a murderer in Oklahoma raises questions about implementation of the death penalty and will ask the U.S.