Oklahoma plans to resume executions by using nitrogen or another gas to starve an inmate of oxygen because it cannot obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections, state officials said on Wednesday.

America is returning to firing squad executions after failing to find a more humane way to carry out the death penalty.

Florida has increased the number of executions since the beginning of 2025, with a record 19 death row inmates put to death ...

Every execution in Indiana since 1996, including those most recently of Joseph Corcoran and Benjamin Ritchie, has been carefully designed to make the viewer feel good about themselves. They might even ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — As Tennessee is set to carry out its first execution under the state’s new death penalty protocol this month, some death row inmates say the firing squad would be more humane ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Is justice served by the execution of those sentenced to death in Tennessee? Is the use of pentobarbital in lethal injections humane? Governor Bill Lee halted the process 30 ...

On March 25th, the Public Policy Program hosted a conversation with Corinna Barrett Lain, graduate of the W&M class of 1992 and author of Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal ...

Men on death row are housed at Florida State Prison and Union Correctional Institution in Raiford, southwest of Jacksonville. The women on death row are housed at the Lowell Annex south of Gainesville ...

Background: Lethal injection for execution was conceived as a comparatively humane alternative to electrocution or cyanide gas. The current protocols are based on one improvised by a medical examiner ...

By Jonathan Allen May 21 (Reuters) - Tennessee prison officials aborted their attempt to execute a man convicted of murders on Thursday after failing to find a suitable vein for a lethal injection.