Both the federal government and South Carolina carry out the lethal injections using a single drug, pentobarbital, a powerful ...

(The Center Square) – A Mexican man pleaded guilty Friday to illegally importing the drug pentobarbital for use in committing suicide after officials found some of his clients dead. Daniel ...

The federal government will no longer use pentobarbital in executions due to concerns of "unnecessary pain and suffering," a decision made less than one month after Tennessee announced it would be ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, personally requested the unusual punishment after fearing the electric chair would “burn and cook him alive, ...

Only three people have been executed by firing squad in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

A group of health care experts said that if the Arizona Supreme Court issues a death warrant, it would trigger "a cascade of federal drug violations." ...

Sigmon’s lawyers said he chose against lethal injection because of the circumstances of the three previous executions since the state moved to using a massive dose of pentobarbital. While ...

Man on death row for beating his ex-girlfriend's parents to death will die by firing squad unless U.S. Supreme Court grants ...

Sigmon didn't choose lethal injection because witnesses to the three previous executions since the state moved to using a massive dose of pentobarbital have said that even though the condemned ...

Lawmakers in Connecticut want to ban state companies from profiting off drugs used in federal executions, all of which are ...

Through IV lines connected to his arms flowed the drug pentobarbital, a powerful sedative that South Carolina uses to execute inmates. Moore was the second of three inmates executed since South ...