A second death row inmate in South Carolina has chosen execution by firing squad. It comes just weeks after the first ...

States put to death 47 people last year, double the recent norm. What’s behind the rise?

Update at 8:19 p.m. ET. Execution Fails: According to reporters tweeting from inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma, the execution of Clayton D. Lockett has failed. Lockett ...

A bungled execution in Oklahoma is providing death penalty opponents with a fresh example of how lethal injections can go wrong. But the odds of successfully challenging the nation’s main form of ...

Myth 6: Some botched executions in which we know the inmate suffered excruciating pain could have been prevented by a better protocol. Seven executions listed on the Death Penalty Information Center ...

A federal judge in Ohio has rejected the state's three-drug lethal injection protocol on the grounds that one of the drugs, the sedative midazolam, is not sufficiently humane in its effects. The drug ...

WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday said the botched execution of a murderer in Oklahoma raises questions about implementation of the death penalty and will ask the U.S.

A fourth Ohio inmate has gotten a temporary stay of execution as state officials and defense lawyers continue to examine the state's lethal injection method. A federal judge on Monday indefinitely ...

Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say. Forty-six people on death row have been executed so far this year, and two ...