lethal injection

Lawmakers in Connecticut want to ban state companies from profiting off drugs used in federal executions, all of which are carried out in Indiana.

While the Trump administration can’t reverse former President Biden’s decision to grant clemency to 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row, it's signaling plans to target them in other ways.

Outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland’s order cited reports of autopsies on executed prisoners that showed, in many cases, signs of a potentially excruciating condition in which blood flows into the lungs.

The proposed execution of Joseph Corcoran, convicted in four murders in 1998, would be the first state execution in Indiana in 15 years. The state plans to use a controversial drug to carry it out.

Lethal injection is thought to be painless and thought to be quick, seemingly the most humane choice. But what if we've got it all wrong?