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 ...

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

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

A Florida death row inmate who was convicted of kidnapping and killing a woman in 2000 is asking the court to show him ...

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

People sentenced to death in Florida could be executed by firing squads, nitrogen gas or other methods under a bill that ...

TDOC has not said where and when the drug pentobarbital was purchased. Tennessee has paid nearly $600,000 for lethal injection drugs in recent years, but the details are shrouded in secrecy. The ...

Wendell Grissom, the death row inmate, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. A prison official told the Associated Press that Grissom, 56, was pronounced ...

Oklahoma executed a man Thursday morning 20 years after he murdered a woman during a home invasion and robbery.

The state currently has 45 men and one woman on death row. With the challenges of finding lethal injection drugs, some states are considering gas chambers and firing squads. The family of Angela ...

The law let the state secure more lethal injection drugs by keeping details about them secret and let inmates choose how to die by picking among three options like ordering off a menu. Since then ...