Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (NYU Press, April 2025)—a new book by law professor, former prosecutor, and death penalty expert Corinna Barrett Lain—brings ...

A chilling plot to kill 82-year-old Jacob Moseti was foiled in Kisii. A nurse and two men planned to inject him with a lethal drug, but their scheme was thwarted.

Idaho hasn’t executed a prisoner in nearly 13 years, in part because prison officials could not buy hard-to-find lethal injection drugs. Now they’ve expired.

Lethal injection, electric chair, firing squad or even nitrogen gas: the execution methods still used in the world today as one death row inmate in the US faces an impossible choice ...

A third syringe was to contain 60 milliliters of saline. ... The published federal protocol for execution by lethal injection does not specify when a second dose can be administered.

Both the federal government and South Carolina carry out the lethal injections using a single drug, pentobarbital, ... A third syringe was to contain 60 milliliters of saline.

South Carolina's executions have been postponed since 2011 over struggles to get the lethal injection ... They included in their court papers a photo of a syringe of a execution drug from 2015 in ...

A South Carolina inmate forced to choose his execution method left the decision to his lawyer, who picked lethal injection instead of the electric chair or a firing squad.

Owens’ death is now set for Sept. 20, as South Carolina uses a new lethal injection procedure after a 13-year pause in executions. South Carolina’s executions have been postponed since 2011 ...

Both the federal government and South Carolina carry out the lethal injections using a single drug, pentobarbital, a powerful sedative that some experts warn causes extreme pain and suffering when ...