Brigitte Stegemann's granddaughter alleges the 83-year-old had no idea she was about to die until she was told a lethal MAID ...

Oklahoma can move forward with its controversial lethal-injection drug, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday. Justice Samuel Alito Jr., writing for the majority, said prisoners who challenged the ...

When the U.S. Supreme Court last examined a lethal injection procedure, it credited the states with demonstrating an "earnest desire to provide for a progressively more humane manner of death." But ...

Michael Siem [lawyer for Jack Alderman, Clifford Chance]: "In applying the US Supreme Court's holding in Baze v. Rees [last week], Judge Martin found the Georgia Lethal Injection Procedures ...

On March 25th, the Public Policy Program hosted a conversation with Corinna Barrett Lain, graduate of the W&M class of 1992 and author of Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Little is known about how Indiana acquired pentobarbital, a drug that state officials have used twice for executions in the last ...

The US Supreme Court is under increasing pressure to consider halting death sentences by lethal injection after a convicted Arizona killer took two hours to die. Opponents and supporters of capital ...

A man in Tennessee is set to be executed in Nashville Thursday morning, August 13, for the first time since the failed May 21 lethal injection attempt of a Memphis man. Anthony Darrell Hines is facing ...

Death row inmate who murdered 3 people execution-style set for lethal injection - LeJames Norman was arrested about five ...

Inmate Charles Warner, the second of two Oklahoma death row prisoners originally scheduled to die on April 29th, won't go to the lethal injection chamber until at least November 13th. That's thanks to ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor expressed concerns about Florida’s lethal injection procedure on Tuesday, urging more transparency as the Supreme Court denied a man’s emergency bid to avoid execution later in ...

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