Eight days before Tennessee is scheduled to execute another death row inmate, the state's high court met to determine if the lethal injection officials will use to kill him will illegally torture him ...

Next week the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the case of Russell Bucklew, a Missouri death-row inmate who argues that the state’s plan to execute him by lethal injection violates the ...

A federal judge in San Jose will take up an issue today that has the potential to block all executions in California: whether lethal injections used on death row inflict so much pain that they violate ...

In one of two major decisions handed down Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that inmates on death row could make last-minute claims that the chemicals in lethal injections are too painful and violate ...

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 ...

LINCOLN (CN) – The Nebraska Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the state’s controversial protocol for lethal injection executions Friday, finding the plaintiffs lack standing to sue. “The ...

CINCINNATI, Ohio — A federal appeals court says an Ohio man who raped and stabbed a 14-year-old East Cleveland girl more than two decades ago filed a challenge of the lethal injection system too late.