Lethal injection is tainted with error, ineptitude and secrecy that's led to many botched executions and unnecessary suffering. Missouri passed a law shielding the identity of the people involved in ...
Executions are usually designed to look like a cold, efficient machine, but Oklahoma’s 2014 attempt to execute Clayton Lockett was just the opposite. It was bloody, yes, but more than that, it was ...
Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say.Forty-six people on death row have been executed so far this year, and two ...