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 ...

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 ...

Basing their decision on a 135-year-old civil rights law, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court rules Monday that death row inmates may challenge the use of lethal injection on the grounds it is cruel and ...

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 ...

FILE- In this Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015 file photo, federal public defender Dale Baich, right, one of the attorneys for death row inmate Richard Glossip, talks with the media outside the Oklahoma ...

The U.S. Supreme Court made the right decision Wednesday when it voted 7-2 against a challenge to the most common method of lethal injections. Executions across the country had been on hold since ...

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 ...