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A federal judge has declined news outlets' request for a preliminary injunction letting reporters witness Indiana executions.
Last week, we learned another hard lesson about executions, namely that there is no foolproof way of killing someone.
The new IDOC Director Bree Derrick sits down exclusively with Idaho News 6 to discuss her background, leadership vision, and ...
Tennessee is scheduled to resume executions this month, and some victims’ rights advocates are arguing there are better ways ...
A suspected serial killer once scrutinized for a possible link to the O.J. Simpson case that riveted the nation in the ...
A South Carolina man who was twice sentenced to die for killing two people nearly two decades ago was scheduled Friday to be exe ...
The bills come as legal questions about lethal injection’s effectiveness ... Beyond South Carolina and Utah, execution by firing squad is also legal in Idaho, Oklahoma, and Mississippi. In March, ...
The May 2025 firing squad execution of Mikal Deen Mahdi in South Carolina was botched, resulting in a prolonged and painful death, and raising questions about the constitutionality of the method and ...
Journalist Jeffrey Collins has watched almost a dozen people executed in the US using three different methods and described being shot as the most 'violent' way to bow out ...
A third of executions in 2022 were botched or highly problematic, according to a report from the Death Penalty Information ...
For inmates sentenced in the state after that date, lethal injection is the default method of execution ... Only three other ...