Crafty death-row lawyers and bleeding-heart judges get the blame, but the public might just as well point the finger at state government itself for Tennessee's failure to carry out death sentences.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State lawyers want an entire appeals court to review Ohio’s new and twice-rejected lethal injection process as the state struggles to resume executions. The attorney general’s ...

The Department of Justice's report is the latest development in the administration’s long campaign to execute as many people as possible.

(WDEF) The Tennessee Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on December 18 in Nashville in an appeal by the State opposing the requests of several death row inmates who are seeking the identity of ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a drug used by Oklahoma as part of its lethal injection procedure does not violate the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, ...

Harold Wayne Nichols, who was jailed for the 1988 rape and murder of student Karen Pulley, is set to be executed by lethal injection in Tennessee. Nichols confessed to killing 20-year-old Chattanooga ...

WASHINGTON -- The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer tightened its policies Friday regarding the use of drugs in lethal injections, a move experts said would make it harder for states to carry out executions ...

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 ...

TALLAHASSEE — Raising issues about chronic health problems and Florida’s lethal-injection process, attorneys for condemned killer Frank Walls on Wednesday filed an emergency motion asking a federal ...

A federal judge on Thursday declared Ohio's new lethal injection process unconstitutional and delayed three executions, including one scheduled next month. The ruling by Magistrate Judge Michael Merz ...