The former Florida State Prison official, Ron McAndrew, lamented the death of Pedro Medina, whose body was scalded by a ...

As Christa Pike waits to become first woman executed in Tennessee, here's a look at death penalty cases that ended controversially.

Supporters of the method say it’s foolproof – but forensic experts say it can be ‘excruciating’ amid allegations it has been intentionally botched ...

A controversial new rule in Idaho will allow volunteers to shoot and kill death row inmates. The state has become the first ...

A group of Tennessee Republican senators is urging the governor to commission an independent review of a failed execution and ...

Yet another Tennessee Republican lawmaker is pressuring Gov. Bill Lee’s administration for a full accounting of a botched ...

Regardless of anyone’s specific opinion on the moral and ethical grounds of capital punishment as a deterrent or an act of state barbarism, the fact of the matter is this: the actual, mechanical ...

Mr. Chammah is a staff writer at The Marshall Project and the author of “Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty.” See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más ...

Singapore on Wednesday denied claims by a Malaysian rights group that it used a brutal “coup de grace” to finish off botched executions and ordered Yahoo and other sites to correct reports of the ...

(Reuters) - Alabama has reached a settlement with an inmate suffering from terminal cancer and severely compromised veins who survived an execution attempt last month when a lethal injection had to be ...

Tennessee has called off the execution of a death row inmate convicted of triple murder after his executioners failed to insert a backup intravenous line, prompting the governor to grant a one-year ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Days after the botched execution of a convicted triple murderer, defense attorneys are now calling on Gov. Bill Lee to halt all executions in Tennessee. Currently, a lawsuit ...