However the company distanced itself from the use of the short-acting anaesthetic, formerly branded as Amidate, in lethal injections. Lethal injections in the US typically have three components ...

Lethal injection is a common form of execution in a number of countries, most prominently the US and China. The protocols currently used in the US contain three drugs: an ultrashort-acting ...

A day after Idaho prison’s system advised that it is again ready to perform a lethal injection, an Ada County judge issued the latest death warrant for Thomas Creech, the state’s longest ...

Alabama executed a man Thursday who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016 and dropped his appeals to allow his lethal injection to go forward.

Oklahoma executes man on death row convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing 7-year-old girl in 1984 Oklahoma has executed a man convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a 7-year-old girl in ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A condemned South Carolina inmate chose Friday to be executed by lethal injection, instead of by firing squad or electrocution, for killing a store clerk in 1999.

Moore has chosen to be executed by lethal injection, his attorneys say, after wrangling over South Carolina’s access to lethal injection drugs led McMaster to sign a law in 2021 allowing the ...

The death penalty is on hold while the S.C. Supreme Court determines whether to restart executions by lethal injection, firing squad or the electric chair. Kinard Lisbon AP South Carolina death ...

Dearman, 36, is set to die by lethal injection eight years after he used an ax and a gun to kill Laneta Lester’s family members as they slept on Aug. 20, 2016. They were: her brother Joseph ...

Alabama executed a man Thursday who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016 and dropped his appeals to allow his lethal injection to go forward.