South Carolina resumed executions with the firing squad killing of Brad Sigmon last month. Mikal Madhi’s execution date is ...

While manufacturers of FDA-approved injectable pentobarbital are warning states not to use the sedative in executions, some ...

Florida is set to execute the 48-year-old Tanzi by lethal injection for the 2000 rape and murder of former Miami Herald ...

Michael Tanzi is scheduled to die via lethal injection Tuesday at Florida State Prison for the kidnapping and murder of Janet Acosta, 49, in April 2000.

Lawyers for a Florida man on death row are seeking to halt his execution set for next week, arguing that his obesity could ...

James Edward Smith asked for a lump of dirt, but his request was denied. He settled for a cup of yogurt instead.

Lawyers for convicted murderer Michael Tanzi say that his weight and health conditions could cause a lethal injection ...

Ohio has not carried out an execution in nearly seven years, despite 116 inmates remaining on death row, according to the state’s ...

The morbidly obese killer’s defense team argued his planned lethal injection would violate the Eighth Amendment, which protects against forms of cruel and unusual punishment.

A bill could make firing squads and lethal gas options in Florida executions as a shortage of pentobarbital, used for lethal ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal ...

A discreet delivery pulled up outside of Idaho’s maximum-security prison near Boise in the state’s exhaustive quest for lethal injection drugs 1 1⁄2 years ago. Just outside of the prison ...