WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the use of a controversial drug for lethal injection in executions. The ruling was 5-4. While Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote the principle descent, ...

Lethal injection is tainted with error, ineptitude and secrecy that's led to many botched executions and unnecessary suffering. Missouri passed a law shielding the identity of the people involved in ...

A bill allowing for firing squad executions for death penalty inmates was filed in the Indiana legislature for the 2026 session. Senate Bill 11, filed by State Sen. Michael Young, would allow for ...

Tennessee plans to execute Harold Wayne Nichols for a 1988 murder amid controversy over lethal injection methods, echoing broader debates on capital punishment. Trump expected to sign executive order ...

In this interview, law professor Corinna Barrett Lain discusses her book “Secrets of the Killing State,” which exposes the troubling realities behind lethal injection as a method of execution. Lain, a ...

"The simplest [execution] I know of is the guillotine. And I'm not at all opposed to bringing it back. The person's head is cut off and that's the end of it," said Jay Chapman. Chapman is the creator ...

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal injection, drawn up almost a decade later, takes up just two sentences. The ...