Six men are scheduled to be executed in the next week and half, and if the lethal injections are carried out, they will all go through the same process.Inmates will be held in a holding cell in the ...

The national impact of the unprecedented halting of a rapist’s execution after two hours and temporary reprieves for other condemned inmates likely will become clear over the next few months as courts ...

State corrections officials Tuesday proposed new lethal injection procedures, a first step toward resuming executions in California after a four-year halt. The proposals involve only minor changes to ...

State officials launched a two-month forum Friday for public comment on revised lethal injection procedures in a step toward resuming executions as early as next year. But the California Department of ...

OLYMPIA — Washington’s lethal injection method is illegal because it can’t ensure condemned inmates will be totally unconscious when fatal drugs flow into their veins, three death row prisoners argued ...

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 ...