"The simplest [execution] I know of is the guillotine. And I'm not at all opposed to bringing it back. The person's head is cut off and that's the end of it," said Jay Chapman. Chapman is the creator ...

With just weeks until Indiana’s third scheduled execution in less than a year, debate continues around the state’s supply of pentobarbital — and whether the execution drug can be safely used to kill ...

South Carolina uses two, massive five-gram doses of pentobarbital to execute death row inmates who choose lethal injection. Long hinted at in autopsies, court filings and by attorneys representing the ...

Lethal injection is tainted with error, ineptitude and secrecy that's led to many botched executions and unnecessary suffering. Missouri passed a law shielding the identity of the people involved in ...

Facing a $23 million deficit, Dr. Brennan Asplen says voucher programs are pulling funding from public schools — and he’s pushing back on state allegations that he directed teachers to vote a certain ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP/WCSC) - The next South Carolina death row inmate set to be executed has selected lethal injection as the method after his lawyers said he was troubled by the last execution by ...

Mississippi allows execution by firing squad, but has never used this method. Richard Jordan, Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection.

In this interview, law professor Corinna Barrett Lain discusses her book “Secrets of the Killing State,” which exposes the troubling realities behind lethal injection as a method of execution. Lain, a ...

“He started a movement down there in Houston… hopefully it’ll expand through his legacy." Read full article: Friends remember 33-year-old killed in Paradise City shooting as ‘life of the party’ in ...

A federal judge Wednesday told lawyers for a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days that he doesn’t plan to stop the execution because they didn’t have evidence there were problems with ...