Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When South Carolina executes a man for the first time in more than a decade this Friday, the state will use the most common method ...

Oklahoma’s use of a three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday following a lawsuit from nearly 30 people on death row challenging the protocol. The suit, ...

A federal judge permanently blocked Alabama from using nitrogen gas for executions, ruling the method violates the ban on ...

Montgomery, Alabama — Alabama won't seek another lethal injection date for an inmate whose September execution had been halted because of problems establishing an intravenous line, according to the ...

More than 2 years after Tennessee abruptly halted the execution of inmate Oscar Smith — admitting that correction officials were not following their own execution protocols — the state has announced a ...

Alabama has requested to execute Jeffery Lee by lethal injection following court decisions that blocked the use of nitrogen ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for six death row inmates out of appeals in South Carolina are asking the state Supreme Court to give full consideration to the state’s new lethal injection rules as well ...

From lethal injection to nitrogen gas, here’s a look at the execution methods allowed under Alabama law.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The first U.S. execution by lethal injection took place 40 years ago, ...

Forty years ago this month America entered the era of execution by lethal injection. On Dec. 7, 1982, Texas used this method for the first time to put Charles Brooks Jr. to death. Since then, lethal ...