In Tampa, he was convicted of the 1995 murder of Tina Marie Cribbs. She met Rogers, a former carnival worker, at the Showtown ...

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“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, creates a high risk that a person receiving a lethal injection ...

Autopsies conducted on two inmates executed since South Carolina switched its lethal injection method to massive doses of pentobarbital revealed significant fluid buildup in their lungs.

Lawyers for a Florida man on death row are seeking to halt his execution set for next week, arguing that his obesity could lead to a botched lethal injection.

The first lethal injection was carried out in 1982 in Texas. Injection soon became the primary method of execution throughout ...

Since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging.

Two execution are scheduled for the second week of April in Florida and South Carolina, one of them by firing squad.

There is a call for Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to pause executions until a judge reviews the state's new lethal injection ...

A new bill in the Florida House of Representatives, HB 903, would allow for execution methods other than electrocution and ...

Lethal injection has been the preferred method in the modern era, with 1,428 carried out since 1976. Texas has done the most, killing 593 inmates, according to the Death Penalty Information Center ...