The U.S. Supreme Court took up a constitutional challenge to lethal injections Monday, agreeing to decide how far states must go to reduce the risk of excruciating pain during an execution. The ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to die on Tuesday in Louisiana. He was ...

Two condemned inmates sought death by firing squad instead of lethal injection. The lethal injection method is supposed to be more humane, but experts say it's unconstitutional. It feels like ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HOUSTON (AP) — South Carolina is preparing ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Supreme Court’s decision Monday giving a green light to an execution drug triggered a renewed attempt in California to create a single-drug method of lethal injection for inmates ...

Executions had been on hold nationwide while Justices considered case. April 16, 2008— -- The Supreme Court has upheld the three-drug lethal injection method used by the state of Kentucky in a ...

Reporting from San Francisco — California unveiled a new method for executing prisoners Friday, proposing a “humane and dignified” single-drug injection protocol that could restart capital punishment ...