In this interview, law professor Corinna Barrett Lain discusses her book 'Secrets of the Killing State,' which exposes the ...

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted 3-2 on Wednesday to recommend the governor spare the life of a man scheduled to be executed next week for the 2001 stabbing death of a man during a botched ...

A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say ...

Lethal injection is tainted with error, ineptitude and secrecy that's led to many botched executions and unnecessary suffering. Missouri passed a law shielding the identity of the people involved in ...

CHICAGO(AP) — An Indiana man convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl was set to die by lethal injection early Friday in the state’s third execution since resuming capital punishment ...

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or nitrogen. What to know.

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