Last week, we learned another hard lesson about executions, namely that there is no foolproof way of killing someone.

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

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

Tennessee death row inmates are asking a Davidson County court to require the state's Department of Correction to reveal its sources for the drugs used for lethal injection.

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT As the death penalty continues to be a point of heated debate 60 years since the last person was ...

The lawmaker behind the death penalty bill said he expects legislators will pass it before this year’s session adjourns.

The man scheduled for execution this month in Tennessee has declined to choose an execution method, which is what stopped ...

IDOC spent years trying to find lethal injection drugs, only to have their use-by date lapse while contending with delays, ...

In March, South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon, who was sentenced to death for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a ...

The new attack method can leak privileged kernel memory on CPUs released in the past six years that have hardware mitigations ...