Republican gubernatorial candidate U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn is ready to activate the modern iteration of “Old Sparky” as ...

Gov. Bill Lee refuses to review Tennessee's lethal injection protocol after a failed execution attempt.

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Alabama can’t execute a prisoner using its current nitrogen execution process, said the man’s lawyers, but that doesn’t mean the state couldn’t change that process. Jeffery Lee was supposed to die by ...

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward.

The constitutional prohibition of ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ has shaped legal discourse around failed executions, but ...

Louisiana has resumed executions using a novel nitrogen gas method — a legacy, in part, of problems getting the drugs used for lethal injections. But the injection method remains on the books in the ...

Florida executed its oldest inmate on Thursday, continuing a sharp increase in executions under Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The state will still allow lethal injection for death-row prisoners if it's not possible to use the firing squad.

Idaho’s stockpile of execution drugs, which is housed at the Idaho state prison complex south of Boise, has cost taxpayers $200,000 over the past two years. All of the hard-to-find chemicals have ...

The Justice Department on Friday said it will seek to impose the death penalty in more federal cases and will expand the way in which convicted inmates can be killed—including bringing back the firing ...