For almost an hour, members of Idaho’s execution team searched to find a suitable vein in the body of death row prisoner Thomas Creech to deliver the dose of deadly drugs needed to fulfill his death ...

Feb 28 (Reuters) - Idaho botched its attempt to execute a 73-year-old prisoner on Wednesday, abandoning the lethal injection and sending the convicted murderer back to his cell after repeatedly ...

Attorneys for Missouri death row inmate Brian Dorsey have several appeals pending in a last-ditch bid to spare him from execution. Dorsey's legal counsel cites state execution protocol, which allows ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri's execution protocol allows for “surgery without anesthesia” if the typical process of finding a suitable vein to inject the lethal drug doesn't work, lawyers for a death row ...

Thomas Eugene Creech, the 73-year-old Idaho serial killer and suspect in a 1974 San Bernardino County slaying who was scheduled to die by lethal injection on Wednesday, Feb. 28, was returned to his ...