DALLAS, June 11 (UPI) -- Texas prepared to resume executions Wednesday after the state's highest criminal court gave the go-ahead in the case of Karl Eugene Chamberlain.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in a case challenging the constitutionality of execution by lethal injection.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Nov. 15 (UPI) -- A dyslexic doctor cited in 20 malpractice suits and banned from practice in Missouri is the subject of inquiries into his role in capital punishment in Indiana.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said the court's decision to hear a lethal injection case should not be interpreted as a moratorium on the procedure.
NASHVILLE, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- A U.S. federal judge ruled that Tennessee's lethal injection protocol is unconstitutional and the procedure has a significant risk of “unnecessary pain.”
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The judge who halted a lethal injection in California explored a new drug protocol that cuts the risk of an inmate experiencing excruciating pain on execution.
SACRAMENTO, April 24 (UPI) -- Rising concerns about lethal injections inflicting severe pain on condemned prisoners have brought numerous constitutional challenges against the method.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- The state of Missouri executed convicted killer Timothy Terry Wednesday for the 1989 beating death of his wife.
