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

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

And I'm Robert Siegel. A botched execution in Oklahoma last week has turned a spotlight on how states put inmates to death. In all 32 states that have the death penalty, lethal injection is the ...

The US created a landmark moment in August when it carried out its first prisoner execution by firing squad in 15 years, marking just the fourth instance this method has been employed since capital ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - Alabama has reached a settlement with an inmate suffering from terminal cancer and severely compromised veins who survived an execution attempt last month when a lethal injection had to be ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The botched execution of an Oklahoma inmate is certain to fire up the debate over what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment -- the phrase written into the U.S. Constitution and ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. As fervently as some may support the death penalty by lethal injection, when the process becomes the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Christa Gail Pike — who was sentenced to death as a teen for the brutal 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer — is suing Tennessee over its execution protocol. The ...