While manufacturers of FDA-approved injectable pentobarbital are warning states not to use the sedative in executions, some ...

A federal judge will hear arguments Tuesday morning in a lawsuit brought by three news organizations that say Idaho prison ...

A federal magistrate judge is expected to hear arguments Tuesday morning in a lawsuit brought by three news organizations ...

A discreet delivery pulled up outside of Idaho’s maximum-security prison near Boise in the state’s exhaustive quest for lethal injection drugs 1 1⁄2 years ago. Just outside of the prison ...

In February 2024, at the rural intersection of Pleasant Valley and Ten Mile Creek roads in Kuna, Idaho, a warden acquired the state’s lethal injection drugs.

He had been faced with an impossible choice, if you can call it that. Die by lethal injection, electrocution, or firing squad? Firing squad, he concluded, seemed the most humane. Now, he found ...

Under those guidelines, lethal injections of companion or laboratory animals are limited to injection by qualified personnel of certain clinically tested, Food and Drug Administration-approved ...

Over the last year, inmates have elected to be executed in ways other than lethal injection. For example, in South Carolina, a man chose to die by firing squad and in Louisiana, a man chose to die ...

New data from Oregon’s public health authority shows that the number of prescriptions for lethal drugs under the state’s assisted suicide law increased by roughly 8% last year, with assisted ...