DOJ abandons pentobarbital for executions, same drug chosen by Tennessee last month AG Merrick Garland wrote there is 'significant uncertainty' around whether drug inflicts unnecessary pain and ...

Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled to die on May 22, declined to select a method meaning it defaults to lethal injection.

South Carolina received approval to perform executions by firing squad in 2022, a year after a state law was passed that made death by electric chair or firing squad legal options for people on ...