LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The lethal injection protocol that was used in 2018 to execute a Nebraska prisoner withstood a legal challenge Friday from death penalty opponents who hoped to prevent the state ...

LINCOLN (CN) – The Nebraska Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the state’s controversial protocol for lethal injection executions Friday, finding the plaintiffs lack standing to sue. “The ...

Basing their decision on a 135-year-old civil rights law, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court rules Monday that death row inmates may challenge the use of lethal injection on the grounds it is cruel and ...

FILE- In this Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015 file photo, federal public defender Dale Baich, right, one of the attorneys for death row inmate Richard Glossip, talks with the media outside the Oklahoma ...

The U.S. Supreme Court made the right decision Wednesday when it voted 7-2 against a challenge to the most common method of lethal injections. Executions across the country had been on hold since ...

Lawyers for Zane Floyd, scheduled to die in fewer than 40 days for a massacre at a Las Vegas grocery store, say an untested combination of drugs planned for his lethal injection would amount to cruel ...

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that a convicted Alabama killer can pursue an appeal claiming lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment in his case. Justices said that lower courts ...

The commonwealth’s authority to buck federal law and legalize drug-injection consumption sites dominated a legislative hearing Monday, as some health-care providers and local officials insisted that ...

OKLAHOMA CITYOKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma is ill-prepared to resume executing inmates and its new lethal injection protocols would violate the constitutional rights of prisoners, attorneys for death row ...