Lethal Injection

Thailand carries out first execution since 2009; Amnesty International calls it 'violation of the right to life'

Thailand has carried out its first execution since 2009, killing a 26-year-old convict. It has been condemned by Amnesty International as "deplorable".

Centre defends death by hanging in SC, says it's quicker and safer than other forms of execution

The Centre said it didn't want to make the execution "overly comfortable", since it's a punishment meant to be handed out only in the rarest of rare cases because the crime was barbaric and abhorrent in nature.

'Humane' death penalty is an oxymoron: SC should focus on improving quality of investigation, trials instead

The Supreme Court's observations give rise to the obvious question: is it even possible for the State to ensure a peaceful and dignified death for criminals?

As Arizona inmate died, lawyers debated if he was in pain

Lawyers, doctors discussed the brain activity and heart rate of Joseph Rudolph Wood, who was gasping over and over in the botched Arizona execution.

US Supreme Court under pressure to ban lethal injections after 2 hour execution

The US Supreme Court is under increasing pressure to consider halting death sentences by lethal injection after a convicted Arizona killer took two hours to die.

US: Another botched execution sparks the death penalty debate

It was the second botched execution in the United States so far this year, prompting outrage from death penalty abolitionists and critics

Row over drug in lethal injection may prevent Missouri execution

A court hearing is scheduled Tuesday in the federal lawsuit filed by inmate Michael Taylor against The Apothecary Shoppe, a compounding pharmacy in Tulsa.

Texas marks 500th state execution since 1982

McCarthy, 52, was executed for the 1997 robbery, beating and fatal stabbing of retired psychology professor Dorothy Booth.

South Dakota executes man for murder of girl

A South Dakota inmate was executed on Tuesday night for the 1990 rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl who disappeared after leaving her home to buy sugar at a nearby store so she could make lemonade.