The Department of Justice released a report proposing the reinstatement and expansion of controversial federal execution ...

And I'm Robert Siegel. A botched execution in Oklahoma last week has turned a spotlight on how states put inmates to death. In all 32 states that have the death penalty, lethal injection is the ...

Complications with lethal injections in recent years have led to the revival of execution methods that had been previously abandoned.

Moreover, those "botched" executions constituted fewer than 1 percent of all lethal injections carried out in the United States. In few, if any, human endeavors is it possible to ensure a greater than ...

President Donald Trump’s administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, it announced ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The botched execution of an Oklahoma inmate is certain to fire up the debate over what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment -- the phrase written into the U.S. Constitution and ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. As fervently as some may support the death penalty by lethal injection, when the process becomes the ...

Oklahoma prison officials unveiled new execution procedures Tuesday allowing the state to keep using midazolam, a sedative used in flawed executions in other states. Other changes include more ...