Attorneys for death row inmate Chadwick Willacy have filed an emergency petition with the Florida Supreme Court, alleging the ...

Executions in the US are becoming increasingly cruel, with states adopting new methods such as nitrogen hypoxia and lethal ...

A man just weeks from execution is asking the Florida Supreme Court to force state agencies to turn over records he says he ...

In his complaint, Michael Wade Nance said his veins were so severely compromised that they were likely to blow and cause him to suffer “excruciating pain” during the execution.

A Georgia inmate's request to die by a firing squad instead of lethal injection is denied by a federal court.

An Alabama inmate was executed by lethal injection on Thursday evening, the state's attorney general confirmed, marking the state's third execution this year. Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, was convicted on ...

Disturbing news has come from Telangana. Nearly 500 stray dogs have been savagely killed in Kamareddy, Warangal and Jagtial districts. The mass killing of stray dogs was carried out by professional ...

On March 25, the Public Policy Program hosted a conversation and book signing with Corinna Barrett Lain '92 and her daughter ...

Dallas County has played an outsized role in this grim history. Sixty inmates subjected to lethal injection in Texas received ...

Amnesty International has called for doctors and other medical personnel to stop taking part in lethal injection executions as it published a new report today showing the extent and cruelty of death ...