All news on the topic: Lethal Injection

An Arizona prisoner convicted of killing another man by dousing him with gasoline and igniting it was executed on Wednesday. This was the first of three executions scheduled in the U.S. for this week.

A man, whom experts for both prosecutors and defense attorneys claimed was intellectually disabled, became the 600th person executed in Texas since 1982. He was put to death Thursday evening for the murder of a 77-year-old retired college professor.

An Oklahoma inmate who was granted a new trial after spending nearly three decades on death row has now been granted bond, paving the way for his first release from prison since 1997.

Oklahoma carried out the execution of a death row inmate by lethal injection on Thursday morning. The inmate had been found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her baby nearly two decades ago.

The Justice Department announced on Friday that it would reintroduce lethal injection and firing squads as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to "strengthen" the federal death penalty.

Texas has carried out the execution of a death row inmate who, in a moment of rage, fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her 8-year-old son, then turned the knife on her 12-year-old son, who miraculously survived the attack.

Florida has carried out the execution of an inmate 35 years after he shot a police officer over a dozen times during a traffic stop.

bryan fredrick jennings, convicted of the 1979 rape and murder of rebecca kunash, is set for execution nov. 13 at florida state prison. the move continues governor ron desantis’s record-setting pace of executions this year.

Roy Lee Ward, 53, was executed by lethal injection at the Indiana State Prison for the 2001 rape and murder of teenager Stacy Payne. his death marks Indiana’s third execution since resuming capital punishment last year amid renewed debate over lethal injection drugs.

A Riverside County woman previously convicted of involuntary manslaughter was convicted Thursday in Los Angeles for the murder of a Malibu woman after injecting silicone oil into her buttocks.

Michael Bernard Bell, age 54, was declared deceased at 6:25 p.m. following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison, according to Bryan Griffin, a representative for Governor Ron DeSantis

Oscar Smith, an inmate from Tennessee, was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday morning for the 1989 killings of his estranged wife, Judith Smith, and her teenage sons, Jason and Chad Burnett

Matthew Lee Johnson was executed by lethal injection exactly 13 years after he set 76-year-old great-grandmother Nancy Harris on fire during a convenience store robbery in Garland

Brad Sigmon chose to die by firing squad next month, citing concerns with the electric chair and lethal injection, the two available alternative methods.

Steven Lawayne Nelson, aged 37, was found guilty of the 2011 murder of Reverend Clint Dobson, and he was executed on Wednesday

An Oklahoma man who killed a 10-year-old girl in a cannibalistic fantasy died by lethal injection Thursday in the nation’s 25th and final execution of the year.

South Carolina put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection Friday for the 1999 fatal shooting of a convenience store clerk.

Garcia Glenn White was pronounced dead at 6:56 p.m. following a chemical injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.

Emmanuel Littlejohn was executed after Gov. Stitt (R) declined to follow the Pardon and Parole Board's clemency recommendation.

Marcellus Williams, aged 55, has maintained that he is not guilty

A South Carolina inmate on death row will have a choice of lethal injection, electrocution or a firing squad for his scheduled September execution -- the state's first in 13 years.

Brian Dorsey, 52, is set to be executed on Tuesday for murdering his cousin and her husband in 2006.

A death row inmate in Alabama, who lived through a failed lethal injection, is scheduled to be executed on Thursday with nitrogen gas—a method the UN has labeled "inhuman" and veterinarians consider too cruel to use for euthanizing animals

Casey McWhorter, a prisoner in Alabama found guilty of murdering a man during a robbery in 1993 when he was a teenager, was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday

Ahead of his scheduled execution, Brent Brewer speaks about his remorse, personal growth and participation in a faith-based program on Texas death row.