MIT engineers have devised a new way to deliver certain drugs in higher doses with less pain, by injecting them as a ...

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

Learn more about a new approach to drug delivery, which could cut the frequency and pain of long-lasting injections through ...

“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, ...

No state has had more executions since September than South Carolina. That’s one reason why opinion editor Matthew T. Hall ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is part three in a four-part series. Read part one here ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice ...

Scientists have been searching for better ways to treat back pain, and a new breakthrough may offer hope. A team led by Dr.

State law requires that inmates sentenced to death choose between lethal injection ... being saturated with fluid, weighing a combined 1,930 grams. The weight of lungs can vary significantly ...

Inmate Brad Sigmon chose death by firing squad, saying he has concerns about the drugs used in lethal injections.

Nine inmates on Tennessee’s death row have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new lethal injection ... can cause pulmonary edema when used in executions. The condition causes fluid ...