The Justice Department is bringing back firing squads and other execution methods for federal death row inmates. Could ...

The Justice Department also said it was reviving a lethal injection protocol used during President Donald Trump’s first term.

Chadwick Willacy is set to be executed in Florida for a 1990 murder, but attorneys question the state's lethal injection ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Chadwick Willacy have filed an emergency petition with the Florida Supreme Court, alleging the state is systematically blocking access to public records regarding lethal ...

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 ...

A man just weeks from execution is asking the Florida Supreme Court to force state agencies to turn over records he says he needs to file a last-ditch appeal, setting up a legal showdown over what ...

FILE - The gurney used for lethal injections sits behind glass windows in a small cinder block building at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Ga., Sept. 7, 2007. (Ben ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cedric Ricks Image by Texas Department of Justice A Texas man convicted of fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend and her young son in ...

Lance Shockley died by lethal injection last year. State courts have rejected prisoners' requests for DNA testing in recent years. Lance Shockley, a man on death row in Missouri, wanted items from the ...