In a lawsuit, convicted killer Christa Pike is arguing Tennessee's lethal injection procedure would be cruel and unusual punishment.

Since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment with its 1976 ruling in Gregg v. Georgia, the United States has put more than 1,600 of its citizens to death. The two executions carried out in ...

Trained members of Idaho law enforcement with demonstrated firearms proficiency are expected to fill slots for carrying out the death penalty by firing squad as the state prison system ...

New Delhi: What’s a more humane way to execute death-row convicts? Lethal injections or death by hanging? It’s a question that confronted the Supreme Court as it heard an eight-year-old petition ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. As the justices make their final preparations this week for the start of the 2025-26 term, they’ll also address the latest ...

An attorney for an Alabama death row inmate said in a filing Friday that the state's new death penalty protocol would cause "agony" and "excruciating pain" to a condemned inmate, due to the ...