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.

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 ...

New Injection Method Makes an Old TB Vaccine Far More Powerful Giving the vaccine intravenously to monkeys provided 90% protection against tuberculosis.

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 ...

If that happens, Irick's attorneys would likely file a new lawsuit challenging the method of electrocution. Reach Dave Boucher at 615-259-8892, [email protected] and on Twitter @Dave_Boucher1.

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 ...

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.

With lethal injection’s future uncertain, some states are turning to previously discarded methods. The Utah legislature approved a bill on Tuesday that would reintroduce firing squads for ...

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 ...