MCALESTER, Okla. (KJRH) — A U.S. District Court judge ruled Monday that Oklahoma can continue with its executions by lethal injection. Attorneys for numerous death row inmates filed a lawsuit claiming ...

Oklahoma prison officials unveiled new execution procedures Tuesday allowing the state to keep using midazolam, a sedative used in flawed executions in other states. Other changes include more ...

As Christa Pike waits to become first woman executed in Tennessee, here's a look at death penalty cases that ended controversially.

The US Supreme Court is due to review the use of lethal injection drugs following several bungled executions that saw inmates gasping for air during prolonged killings. The court will revisit the 2008 ...

Oklahoma's attorney general on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to put on hold three scheduled executions until the justices rule in a challenge to the state's lethal-injection protocol or ...

On March 25th, the Public Policy Program hosted a conversation with Corinna Barrett Lain, graduate of the W&M class of 1992 and author of Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal ...