Death Penalty Expert On Why Lethal Injection Is So Problematic In the wake of Arizona's botched execution, Steve Inskeep talks with Amherst professor Austin Sarat, author of the recent book ...

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Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

Botched Lethal Injection Executions Reignite Death Penalty Debate Capital punishment and lethal injection were in the news quite a bit in 2014. Unable to secure certain drugs, states began using ...

Exclusive: Robertson has been on death row for 26 years and wants to drop his appeal. He will die by electric chair, firing ...

Botched executions have been around as long the death penalty. About 7 percent of lethal injections and 3 percent of all executions between 1890 and 2010 were botched, according to Austin Sarat ...

In 2015, Florida death-row inmate Wayne Doty asked the state to execute him by electrocution rather than lethal injection. It’s believed to be the first such request since inmates were given a ...

Though lethal injection is the execution method most commonly used in the U.S., the rate of botched executions in recent years has been high, said Denno, pointing to a report from the Death ...

Recent lethal injection failures in Arizona, Alabama and Texas have brought increased scrutiny to the most widely used death penalty method in the US. Bobby Sherman dies at 81.

There are several reasons for the decline, including states pausing executions during the COVID-19 pandemic, a decrease in death penalty practices and the availability of lethal injection drugs ...

ATLANTA — A federal judge has ruled against a man on Georgia’s death row who argued that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain and suggested a firing squad as an alternative.