An attempt to delay Tennessee's next execution over concerns about its new lethal injection protocol was shot down in late November, two weeks before Harold Wayne Nichols is scheduled to be put to ...

Chadwick Willacy is set to be executed in Florida for a 1990 murder, but attorneys question the state's lethal injection protocol. Here's what to know.

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 ...

The Justice Department announced Friday it would readopt the death penalty protocols for lethal injection and firing squads.

Florida plans to execute James E. Hitchcock, which would be the state's sixth execution in 2026. The state has faced scrutiny over its accelerated pace of executions and its lethal injection protocols ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor expressed concerns about Florida’s lethal injection procedure on Tuesday, urging more transparency as the Supreme Court denied a man’s emergency bid to avoid execution later in ...

Melvin Trotter was executed last night, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a last-minute stay of execution. The executive director of Floridians for alternatives to the death penalty, ...

An electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August reportedly showed "sustained cardiac activity" for nearly two minutes after Byron Black was ...