The Department of Justice released a report proposing the reinstatement and expansion of controversial federal execution ...

And I'm Robert Siegel. A botched execution in Oklahoma last week has turned a spotlight on how states put inmates to death. In all 32 states that have the death penalty, lethal injection is the ...

Moreover, those "botched" executions constituted fewer than 1 percent of all lethal injections carried out in the United States. In few, if any, human endeavors is it possible to ensure a greater than ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KUNA, Idaho (AP) — For nearly an hour, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The botched execution of an Oklahoma inmate is certain to fire up the debate over what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment -- the phrase written into the U.S. Constitution and ...

Oklahoma prison officials unveiled new execution procedures Tuesday allowing the state to keep using midazolam, a sedative used in flawed executions in other states. Other changes include more ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. As fervently as some may support the death penalty by lethal injection, when the process becomes the ...