1 Dewitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 2 Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, ...

RICHMOND (AP) -- Virginia has added a new drug to be used in executions to replace one that is in short supply. The Virginia Department of Corrections said Friday that Rocuronium Bromide can now be ...

(CBS/AP) Are the drugs used for lethal injection bad for your health? The short answer is clearly yes. They certainly were for Teresa Lewis, the mentally challenged woman who was put to death Thursday ...

For the first time in the 482 executions that Texas has performed since the death penalty was reinstated in 1982, the state will not use a three-drug cocktail. The state was forced to make a change ...

Oklahoma, one of several states scrambling to replace its now-unavailable lethal injection drugs, has five ways to kill death row inmates, according to lawyers for two condemned men. In a filing ...

Oklahoma revealed Tuesday it intends to use an untested cocktail to execute two death-row inmates later this month. A letter from the state's Attorney General said that the Oklahoma Department of ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Attorney General’s Office confirms the state has acquired the drugs needed to execute two Oklahoma death row inmates this month. Clayton Lockett is scheduled to die on April 22.

The efficacy and safety of execution by lethal injection depends on the efficacy and safety of the drugs used to put people to death. But in the last few years, the process of procuring lethal ...

Background: Lethal injection for execution was conceived as a comparatively humane alternative to electrocution or cyanide gas. The current protocols are based on one improvised by a medical examiner ...