Gov. Bill Lee refuses to review Tennessee's lethal injection protocol after a failed execution attempt.

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee executed an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his heart when the lethal chemicals ...

FILE - The gurney used for lethal injections sits behind glass windows in a small cinder block building at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Ga., Sept. 7, 2007. (Ben ...

Florida executed 74-year-old Dusty Ray Spencer, making him the oldest inmate ever put to death in the state. Spencer was convicted of fatally stabbing his wife in 1992 after years of unsuccessful ...

If Christa Pike chooses lethal injection for her manner of execution, it could lead to "excruciating terror," and therefore be unconstitutional, a lawsuit argues. Pike, who is on the calendar for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The chair used for firing squad executions is shown in the execution chamber at the Utah State Correctional Facility. With lethal ...

A Florida man convicted of killing his girlfriend, her mother and a man he said owed him money more than 30 years ago was put to death on Thursday, extending the record number of executions carried ...