While manufacturers of FDA-approved injectable pentobarbital are warning states not to use the sedative in executions, some ...

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

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Lawyers for convicted murderer Michael Tanzi say that his weight and health conditions could cause a lethal injection cocktail to fail.

Tennessee has paid nearly $600,000 for lethal injection drugs in recent years, but the details are shrouded in secrecy.

A Philadelphia nonprofit told a Third Circuit panel that its faith-based mission to minimize overdose death and injury should ...

Lawyers for a Florida man on death row are seeking to halt his execution set for next week, arguing that his obesity could lead to a botched lethal injection.

Jonathan Martin, R-Fort Myers, aims to protect Florida's status as a death penalty state if certain execution methods like electrocution or legal injection ... or if lethal injection drugs are ...