Lethal injection is an optional or exclusive method of execution in 37 of the 38 death penalty states; Nebraska, which uses the electric chair, is the sole exception. Injection was adopted in ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, May 14 -- A federal appeals court took up an issue Wednesday with broad implications for how executions will be carried out nationwide: whether Virginia's method of lethal injection ...

Patients with cancer, autoimmune diseases, and metabolic disorders often endure hours-long intravenous infusions. These ...

Forty years ago this month America entered the era of execution by lethal injection. On Dec. 7, 1982, Texas used this method for the first time to put Charles Brooks Jr. to death. Since then ...

A federal judge in Oklahoma on Monday ruled the state’s three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional, paving the way for the state to request execution dates for more than two dozen ...

Oklahoma’s use of a three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday following a lawsuit from nearly 30 people on death row challenging the protocol.

This method will allow healthcare professionals to get more doses out of a single vial. Experts explain the efficacy of intradermal injections, and how they stack up against other injection methods.

California unveiled a new method for executing prisoners Friday, proposing a single-drug lethal injection formula that could restart capital punishment after a 10-year hiatus.