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 ...

TALLAHASSEE — Pointing to his obesity and other medical conditions, lawyers for Death Row inmate Michael Tanzi are trying to halt his scheduled April 8 execution by arguing that using the state’s ...

South Carolina uses two, massive five-gram doses of pentobarbital to execute death row inmates who choose lethal injection. Long hinted at in autopsies, court filings and by attorneys representing the ...

A Florida death row inmate who was convicted of kidnapping and killing a woman in 2000 is asking the court to show him leniency regarding his execution, scheduled for early next month, because he is ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Pointing to his obesity and other medical conditions, lawyers for Death Row inmate Michael Tanzi are trying to halt his scheduled April 8 execution by arguing that using the ...

Complications with lethal injections in recent years have led to the revival of execution methods that had been previously abandoned.

During Stanko’s execution, he will be strapped to a gurney with his arm outstretched. Medical workers will place an IV in his arm before the curtain is opened to the witness room. His lawyer can read ...

Inmate Charles Warner, the second of two Oklahoma death row prisoners originally scheduled to die on April 29th, won't go to the lethal injection chamber until at least November 13th. That's thanks to ...