On Sept. 30, Christa Pike became the first known person to survive a lethal injection. While lethal injection is the most ...

Although lethal injection is considered the most humane form of capital punishment, it’s also the method most prone to ...

Researchers in Florence have built generative diffusion models in which quantum coherence and the intrinsic noise of a real ...

Two doses of pentobarbital did not kill her on Sept. 30. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has paused executions for the rest of 2026.

Tennessee’s failed execution raises questions about the veil of secrecy that execution teams operate under and whether there is a flaw in the protocol that led to things going wrong.

Two scheduled executions a week apart have highlighted the ongoing debate over the practice of lethal injection in the US, ...

Jamaal Howard’s lawyers are seeking information about the lethal injection drug, the same medication used in Tennessee’s ...

You might have seen the news that Christa Pike, a convicted murderer in Tennessee, did not die from the injections given to ...

It’s the most error-prone method of execution and has gone wrong several times this year. Christa Pike’s case was the latest.

State Rep. Lowell Russell also called for the dismissal of key execution personnel including the doctor on hand for botched ...

After a halted Tennessee execution, doctors and nurses question whether requiring medical professionals to participate in ...

For decades, lethal injection has been considered a more humane way to carry out executions.