Certain drugs used for lethal injection in the U.S. are in short supply, which is causing states to scramble to find new, often untested drugs to kill death row inmates. For the first time, the ...

A federal appeals court heard arguments Tuesday on a lawsuit filed by 23 death row inmates who are challenging Missouri's secrecy-shrouded lethal injection protocol — including one who was due to be ...

A company that makes a controversial execution drug announced Thursday that it will not sell any of its products to prisons, joining its main competitors in trying to keep their wares out of the death ...

The Arizona Department of Corrections on Friday ceded a legal battle to defense attorneys for death-row prisoners by removing a controversial drug from its lethal-injection execution protocol. In a ...

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