Alabama is set to execute an inmate Thursday using nitrogen gas. The inmate, Kenneth Eugene Smith, was convicted of murdering Elizabeth Sennett for $1,000. The jury recommended a sentence of life ...

All but one of the 27 states that have the death penalty, which is opposed by 40% of Americans, are using lethal injection to execute convicted murderers on death row. A review of the comments of the ...

The Tennessee Department of Correction on Thursday released a redacted version of the new lethal injection protocol it created after a multi-year review of its execution process. The 44-page document ...

The efficacy and safety of execution by lethal injection depends on the efficacy and safety of the drugs used to put people to death. But in the last few years, the process of procuring lethal ...

Tennessee plans to resume executions this year with the single drug pentobarbital. TDOC provided heavily redacted records showing only the amount paid. TDOC has not said where and when the drug ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — UPDATE (12/10): On Wednesday, Knox County Chancellor John F. Weaver ordered the release of the expiration dates for the lethal injection drugs used in the executions of Oscar Smith ...

Since its advent more than 40 years ago, lethal injection has become by far the most common method of enacting capital punishment in the United States, accounting for the vast majority of executions ...

The United States’ opioid problem has steadily been getting worse. In 2022, more than 110,000 people died of drug overdoses, "two-thirds of whom succumbed to synthetic opioids such as fentanyl," ...