While manufacturers of FDA-approved injectable pentobarbital are warning states not to use the sedative in executions, some ...

Shooting prisoners to death has consequences for the reputation of the state,” a national death penalty expert said.

A death-row inmate in Idaho suing over the state’s lethal injection protocol is entitled to discovery about where the execution drugs originated, how they were made, and when the state obtained them, ...

The way lethal injection works in each state differs slightly ... South Carolina is among five states - Mississippi, Oklahoma, Utah and Idaho - which allow firing squad as a method of execution ...

South Carolina on Friday is scheduled to put the first person to death by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, ...

Lethal injection has been the preferred method in ... Five states including Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah authorize its use, but it is not the primary execution method.

A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say more places may turn to.

While manufacturers of FDA-approved injectable pentobarbital are warning states not to use the sedative in executions, some ...