As Georgia plans for its first execution in two years, a trove of records provides us with new information — and raises new ...

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Florida executed 74-year-old Dusty Ray Spencer, making him the oldest inmate ever put to death in the state. Spencer was convicted of fatally stabbing his wife in 1992 after years of unsuccessful ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Tennessee Governor Bill Lee is standing by Tennessee’s protocol for lethal injection following the botched execution of Tony Carruthers. In May, Carruthers’ execution was ...

A Tennessee death row inmate has opted not to choose how he will die, leaving the state to default to lethal injection for his upcoming execution. Harold Wayne Nichols, convicted in 1990 for the 1988 ...

The Arizona Senate passed a measure that would let voters decide whether to allow firing squads as a death penalty option. The proposal comes after a history of problematic executions in the state ...

On March 25th, the Public Policy Program hosted a conversation with Corinna Barrett Lain, graduate of the W&M class of 1992 and author of Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal ...

Firing squads are back on the federal government's list of execution options. Per CBS News, the Justice Department on Friday said it's reinstating the lethal injection protocol used during President ...

The US Supreme Court is under increasing pressure to consider halting death sentences by lethal injection after a convicted Arizona killer took two hours to die. Opponents and supporters of capital ...