Lawyers for a Florida murderer on death row are trying to halt his scheduled execution, saying his weight and health conditions could lead to a botched lethal injection. In court documents ...

Under those guidelines, lethal injections of companion or laboratory animals are limited to injection by qualified personnel of certain clinically tested, Food and Drug Administration-approved ...

but eight states already authorize the use of some form of lethal gas as a backup to lethal injection, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. In four of those states – Alabama ...

Wendell Grissom, the death row inmate, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. A prison official told the Associated Press that Grissom, 56, was pronounced ...

The morning execution of Aaron Gunches by lethal injection at the Florence state prison on March 19 had no such issues. Gunches, who wore a white jumpsuit with white socks, was pronounced dead at ...

Tanzi believes, according to his attorneys, that his execution by lethal injection would violate the Constitution's Eighth Amendment, which prevents cruel and unusual punishment. Michael Tanzi.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging.