Byron Black was executed for murders he committed in 1988. Black had a defibrillator in his chest and the Tennessee State Supreme Court ruled last week that it could be carried out without the device ...
Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call ...
Byron Black noted intense pain during his lethal injection death earlier this week in Tennessee. He was executed after a back-and-forth in court over whether officials would need to disable his ...
One year ago, Louisiana broke a fifteen-year silence on executions by debuting nitrogen hypoxia. Officials called Jessie Hoffman Jr.’s death “flawless,” yet their own reports noted “convulsive ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee officials must deactivate a death-row inmate's implanted heart-regulating device to avert the risk that it might try to shock him during his lethal injection, a judge ...