COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP/WCSC) - The next South Carolina death row inmate set to be executed has selected lethal injection as the method after his lawyers said he was troubled by the last execution by ...

A discreet delivery pulled up outside of Idaho’s maximum-security prison near Boise in the state’s exhaustive quest for lethal injection drugs 1 1⁄2 years ago. Just outside of the prison gates, the ...

A week after announcing the controversial Ithaca Plan — a proposal which would establish the nation’s first supervised drug injection facility in Ithaca — Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 outlined the steps ...

A lab analysis of the lethal injection drug supply Arizona is relying on to resume executions provides no evidence of its efficacy or purity, and it's not clear the state plans to do further testing ...

With just weeks until Indiana’s third scheduled execution in less than a year, debate continues around the state’s supply of pentobarbital — and whether the execution drug can be safely used to kill ...

Most people have an aversion to injecting drugs, especially intravenously; it's referred to as "the needle barrier." For much of the 20th century, this aversion was a powerful deterrent to the use of ...