A new book explores the secretive, complicated history of lethal injection and its relationship to the death penalty.

Idaho’s prison system once again is without execution drugs after its stockpile expired earlier this year, the latest in a ...

Michael Lyle, Nevada Current Four years after state lawmakers failed to pass legislation to abolish the death penalty, ...

Some U.S. politicians insist that the execution methods in their state are relatively painless. But it’s all a farce.

The Associated Press and four other media organizations have filed a federal lawsuit in Indiana seeking media access to the ...

Texas Republicans pushing for death penalty in all 50 states for undocumented murderers - GOP lawmakers seek to close ...

A new act is aiming for the federal government to pursue the death penalty in all 50 states, even where it's banned, for undocumented murderers.

a day after US prosecutors formally stated their intent to seek the death penalty. Mangione, 26, wore a tan jail-issued T-shirt as he was led into the packed lower Manhattan courtroom. He ...

having already pleaded not guilty to state charges, entered the not guilty plea to the four federal charges, which also include a firearms offense that could be punishable by the death penalty.

“No Death ... death penalty a "violation of human rights" that "throws the rest of our justice system out of whack." He also took issue with the dual prosecutions between federal and state ...