The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice over concerns that it might cause unnecessary pain and suffering.
David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly ...
A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die ...
One afternoon in 2022, when it became clear that the Tennessee Department of Correction had violated or otherwise ignored ...
and another stayed in 2022 amid challenges to the state’s death penalty protocol and shortages of its lethal injection drug. Lawyers for Sigmon said his initial trial did not take mitigating ...
As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.
On Wednesday, the Tennessee Supreme Court confirmed that the Attorney General has filed motions to set execution dates for ...
Texas uses lethal injection — Pentobarbital — to carry ... As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted ...
A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...