Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arizona State Sen. Kevin Payne has a very bad idea. Earlier this month, Payne introduced a proposal in the Arizona Senate to ask ...

A convicted Ohio murderer who survived a botched 2009 execution is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court to have a second attempt to put him to death declared unconstitutional, the Associated Press ...

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Death row inmates in two states are taking legal action to stop states from using the kind of multi-drug protocol that resulted in botched executions in Oklahoma and Ohio. The inmates are not ...

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal injection, drawn up almost a decade later, takes up just two sentences. The ...