Imagine you’re suffocating − desperately trying to breath − feeling like you’re being buried alive. The force you’d exert to attempt breathing would literally suck water into the air sacks of your ...

ATLANTA (CN) – The 11th Circuit sided with news media organizations Monday, ruling Alabama cannot prevent the press from making the state's lethal injection execution protocol public and thwarting the ...

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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The lethal injection protocol that was used in 2018 to execute a Nebraska prisoner withstood a legal challenge Friday from death penalty opponents who hoped to prevent the state ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Governor Bill Lee said he planned to hire new leadership at the Tennessee Department of Correction after an investigation into the state's lethal injection protocol. He also said ...

A federal judge in San Jose ruled Friday that California’s implementation of its lethal injection death penalty procedure violates the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

Convicted murderer Joseph Wood was given 15 doses of lethal-injection drugs during the course of an execution that lasted nearly two hours on July 23. This appears to be a violation of the state’s ...

The lethal injection protocol that was used to execute a Nebraska prisoner last year has survived a legal challenge from death penalty opponents who had hoped to overturn it to prevent the state from ...