Arizona State Sen. Kevin Payne has a very bad idea. Earlier this month, Payne introduced a proposal in the Arizona Senate to ...

California issued a stay of execution for Michael Angelo Morales in 2006, sparking a debate about the ethical implications of ...

A prisoner who survived an execution attempt because of a mistake with a lethal injection drug has got married - almost three years on from his brush with death. Richard Glossip's bride, Leigha ...

In this interview, law professor Corinna Barrett Lain discusses her book 'Secrets of the Killing State,' which exposes the troubling realities behind lethal injection as a method of execution. Lain, ...

And I'm Robert Siegel. A botched execution in Oklahoma last week has turned a spotlight on how states put inmates to death. In all 32 states that have the death penalty, lethal injection is the ...

Death row inmates in two states are taking legal action to stop states from using the kind of multi-drug protocol that resulted in botched executions in Oklahoma and Ohio. The inmates are not ...

Republican Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, here with Michael C. Thompson, state secretary of safety and security, charged that the state Supreme Court had exceeded its jurisdiction when it called for a ...

Each week, Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin brings listeners an unexpected side of the news by talking with someone personally affected by the stories making headlines. As a criminal justice ...

It would be an understatement to say Ohio has had many problems administering capital punishment. Over the last decade, the state granted clemency to 10 people and botched four executions, including ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Christa Gail Pike — who was sentenced to death as a teen for the brutal 1995 murder of 19-year-old ...