New records from the governor’s office show Indiana paid $100,000 for execution drugs used in October - bringing the total amount the state has spent on pentobarbital to at least $1.275 million - and ...

Melvin Trotter was executed Feb. 24 for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in ...

A former federal public defender argues Arizona's firing squad execution bill is unconstitutional, legally risky and a step ...

Arizona State Sen. Kevin Payne has a very bad idea. Earlier this month, Payne introduced a proposal in the Arizona Senate to ...

Republican lawmakers on a Senate committee advanced a pair of bills that would give inmates a new option to choose for their ...

Arizona Republicans are advancing a proposal to bring back firing squad executions, including as a mandatory option for those ...

C’mon man, don’t do it,” were police officer Danny Parrish’s last words after Billy Kearse shot him 13 times. Kearse will be ...

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal injection, drawn up almost a decade later, takes up just two sentences. The ...

With a key mid-session deadline now passed, dozens of Indiana bills — including proposals on execution methods, displaying the Ten Commandments in schools, youth social media access and marijuana ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WNDU) - A bill that would have added firing squads as an execution method in Indiana failed in the state house with a 48-47 vote, falling short of the 51 votes needed to pass. Nineteen ...