Lethal Injection

Oct 27, 2025

Attorney: EKG at Tennessee execution active after inmate pronounced dead

An electrocardiogram monitoring the heart of a Tennessee inmate executed by lethal injection in August showed “sustained cardiac activity” nearly two minutes after Byron Black was pronounced dead, his attorney told a judge on Friday.

Aug 5, 2025

Death row inmates challenge new Arkansas law allowing executions by nitrogen gas

Several Arkansas death row inmates sued the state Tuesday to block a new law allowing executions by nitrogen gas, saying the measure gives prison officials unconstitutionally broad authority to decide how they should die.

Apr 1, 2025

Lawsuit by inmates challenging Tennessee’s plans to resume executions

Nine Tennessee death row inmates are suing the state over its push for a new round of lethal injections after an execution was abruptly called off in 2022 and a follow-up investigation found scores of missteps in several executions.

Mar 12, 2025

Court stays execution of Texas man days before execution

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls and young women found buried in the desert near El Paso.

Feb 14, 2025

Judge: Lethal injection doesn’t violate rights of man on death row, avoids firing squad question

A federal judge has ruled against a man on Georgia’s death row who argued that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain and suggested a firing squad as an alternative.

Jul 13, 2020

Judge blocks federal executions; administration appeals

A U.S. district judge on Monday ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out at a federal prison in Indiana.

Sep 24, 2019

Lawsuit calls for full public view of executions in Virginia

Prison officials are unconstitutionally limiting public access to executions in Virginia by blocking witnesses from seeing certain steps in the process, four news organizations allege in a federal lawsuit filed […]

Sep 23, 2019

Lawsuit calls for full public view of executions in Virginia

Prison officials are unconstitutionally limiting public access to executions in Virginia by blocking witnesses from seeing certain steps in the process, four news organizations allege in a federal lawsuit filed […]

Jul 26, 2019

A look at the 5 federal death row inmates facing execution

The Justice Department announced Thursday that it will resume executing death row prisoners for the first time in nearly two decades. At the direction of Attorney General William Barr, the […]

Jul 26, 2019

A look at the 5 federal death row inmates facing execution

The Justice Department announced Thursday that it will resume executing death row prisoners for the first time in nearly two decades. At the direction of Attorney General William Barr, the […]

Nov 27, 2018

DOC settles journalist’s execution-witness suit

Three media organizations in Missouri now will have a designated media witness for executions following the settlement of a two-year lawsuit brought by a BuzzFeed News reporter against the Missouri Department of Corrections.

Nov 5, 2018

Court to review Missouri inmate’s execution case

A Missouri death-row inmate with a rare condition will argue before the U.S. Supreme Court this week that the state’s lethal-injection method is unconstitutional as it applies to his circumstances. […]