RICHMOND, May 14 -- A federal appeals court took up an issue Wednesday with broad implications for how executions will be carried out nationwide: whether Virginia's method of lethal injection induces ...

More than 2 years after Tennessee abruptly halted the execution of inmate Oscar Smith — admitting that correction officials were not following their own execution protocols — the state has announced a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HOUSTON (AP) — South Carolina is preparing ...

In this Peek Behind the Paper, we learn more about a recently published paper by Joaquin Abugattas-Nuñez Del Prado (Leiden University, The Netherlands; Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú ...