Update (5:50 p.m.): Edmund Zagorski's attorney, Kelley Henry, tells the Scene that Tennessee Department of Correction officials have said it's too late for Zagorski to choose the electric chair, and ...
A Fox News host has apologized after proposing using a lethal injection for homeless people with mental health issues. Speaking on Fox & Friends, Brian Kilmeade apologized for comments he made during ...
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 ...
On August 22, 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was fatally stabbed in an unprovoked attack on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, as she traveled home from her job at a pizza ...
With lethal injection drugs proving both costly and difficult to obtain, a growing number of Republican lawmakers and state officials are pushing for an alternative: the firing squad. Lethal injection ...
A federal judge Wednesday told lawyers for a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days that he doesn’t plan to stop the execution because they didn’t have evidence there were problems with ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A federal judge Wednesday refused to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days, saying the prisoner's lawyers didn't have evidence there were ...