Amid execution, Ronald Heath and Melvin Trotter allege that the Florida Department of Corrections has violated its lethal ...

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal ...

In this interview, law professor Corinna Barrett Lain discusses her book 'Secrets of the Killing State,' which exposes the ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection before his Dec. 11 execution. Nichol declined to make his choice Nov. 10, a statement ...

Harold Wayne Nichols, a death row inmate in Tennessee, has declined to select his preferred execution method for his scheduled December 11 death. That means that the state will proceed with lethal ...

1 Dewitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 2 Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An electrocardiogram monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two minutes after Byron Black was ...

"The simplest [execution] I know of is the guillotine. And I'm not at all opposed to bringing it back. The person's head is cut off and that's the end of it," said Jay Chapman. Chapman is the creator ...

Most US executions are beset by procedural problems that could lead to insufficient anesthesia in executions. This hypothesis has been supported by findings of low postmortem blood thiopental levels ...