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

Lawyers for a Florida man on death row are seeking to halt his execution set for next week, arguing that his obesity could ...

Lawyers for convicted murderer Michael Tanzi say that his weight and health conditions could cause a lethal injection ...

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

A Gulf War Army veteran convicted of killing his girlfriend and her three children has been scheduled for execution in ...

Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal injections after an execution ...

Ohio lawmakers are trying to end the state’s years-long moratorium on executions by seeking federal help with obtaining ...

The morbidly obese killer’s defense team argued his planned lethal injection would violate the Eighth Amendment, which protects against forms of cruel and unusual punishment.

A bill could make firing squads and lethal gas options in Florida executions as a shortage of pentobarbital, used for lethal ...

A death row inmate's lawyers filed documents requesting that their client be exempt from lethal injection due to his morbid obesity.