Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal ...

A Tennessee Chancery Court judge ruled that members of the press have the right to witness executions from beginning to end, ...

Clayton Lockett, 38, endured a horrifyingly botched execution at Oklahoma State Penitentiary after being convicted of murder, rape and kidnapping, with witnesses describing the chamber as a 'bloody me ...

And I'm Robert Siegel. A botched execution in Oklahoma last week has turned a spotlight on how states put inmates to death. In all 32 states that have the death penalty, lethal injection is the ...

Death row inmates in two states are taking legal action to stop states from using the kind of multi-drug protocol that resulted in botched executions in Oklahoma and Ohio. The inmates are not ...

Republican Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, here with Michael C. Thompson, state secretary of safety and security, charged that the state Supreme Court had exceeded its jurisdiction when it called for a ...

Capital punishment remains legal throughout much of the United States. However, the form of execution does vary. These are ...

Sen. Mike Young said the bill would provide the IDOC with an option if lethal injection drugs are unavailable. Those who oppose the bill argue it's unnecessary, inhumane and could invite lawsuits over ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Christa Gail Pike — who was sentenced to death as a teen for the brutal 1995 murder of 19-year-old ...

Indiana House debate over a bill to legalize execution by firing squad turned into a debate over capital punishment writ ...