Idaho prison officials must let media witnesses at executions watch as lethal injection drugs are prepared and administered to a condemned person, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge ...

Tennessee has not carried out an execution for more than five years — partly by choice, and partly by necessity. One afternoon in 2022, when it became clear that the Tennessee Department of Correction ...

(INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — Questions remain about Benjamin Ritchie’s early Tuesday execution after his attorneys reported seeing sudden, unexpected movement during the lethal injection process. But ...

Lethal injection is tainted with error, ineptitude and secrecy that's led to many botched executions and unnecessary suffering. Missouri passed a law shielding the identity of the people involved in ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A group of news organizations is suing Tennessee’s Department of Corrections commissioner and a prison warden over the limitations the state’s execution methods present to ...

Major Tennessee news outlets including the company that owns WBIR are pushing to make more of the state's execution process open for public scrutiny. Broadcaster TEGNA Inc., along with the Associated ...

Several news organizations, including Tennessean publisher Gannett, have sued two state corrections officials for greater access to the execution process, much of which is hidden from public view. The ...

WEST JORDAN — Shortly after a district judge decided death-row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies is competent to be executed, his attorneys asked the Utah Supreme Court to review the decision. The judge ...

Another Alabama Death Row inmate is set to die this fall, making him the third man set for execution in a span of three months. He’s currently fighting for his life in court, arguing against the ...

(INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — Questions remain about Benjamin Ritchie's early Tuesday execution after his attorneys reported seeing sudden, unexpected movement during the lethal injection process. But ...

Little is known about Indiana's protocols for using pentobarbital, a drug used by Department of Correction officials to carry out two recent state executions. (Getty Images) Questions remain about ...