The Kentucky Supreme Court denied Attorney General Russell Coleman's petition to lift a 16-year-old injunction that has halted executions in the state since 2010.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The drug at the heart of a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma isn't a household name for many, but on Wednesday, the powerful sedative was being debated in the Supreme Court as lawyers sparred over ...

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 ...

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 ...

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