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Lethal Injection

Execution Mississippi
Mississippi Department of Corrections / via AP

Lethal Injection

Mississippi executes a man convicted of raping and killing a college student in 1993

Florida Execution
Curt Anderson / AP file

Lethal Injection

Florida carries out record 14th execution this year on man convicted of killing 2 women

 A gurney in Huntsville, Texas, in 2008.
Pat Sullivan / AP file

Lethal Injection

In Texas, new details about its execution drug underscore a closely guarded secret

Robert Roberson speaks to Lester Holt of NBC News.
NBC News

Lethal Injection

Texas prisoner Robert Roberson's execution halted by state's highest criminal court

Robert Roberson speaks on the phone in jail
NBC News

Lethal Injection

Death row inmate Robert Roberson's lawyers claim new judicial misconduct evidence

Florida Execution
Florida Department of Corrections / via AP

Lethal Injection

Man convicted of fatally stabbing married couple in 1990 to be executed

Photo illustration of Derrick Dearman
Leila Register / NBC News; Getty Images; AP

EXCLUSIVE

Four inmates executed by Alabama had illegal drugs in their system, reports show

Florida Execution
Curt Anderson / AP file

Lethal Injection

Florida carries out record 12th execution this year for man who killed wife's family

Kayle Bates.
Florida Dept. of Corrections via AP

Lethal Injection

Florida man executed for 1982 killing of woman abducted from an insurance office

Byron Black.
Tennessee Department of Corrections via AP

Lethal Injection

Tennessee executes man with heart device despite concerns it could shock him

Lethal Injection

Execution of inmate with heart device can go forward despite claims it may shock him

Lethal Injection

Judge agrees to October execution date for Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson

This undated provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows Michael Bell, who is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke on Tuesday, July 15, 2025. (Florida Department of Corrections via AP)
Florida Department of Corrections / AP

Lethal Injection

Florida puts a man to death for killing 2 outside a bar, the 26th US execution this year

Oklahoma Execution Hanson
Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP

Lethal Injection

Oklahoma executes a man who was transferred from federal custody by Trump officials

This photo provided by Florida Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Anthony Wainwright.
Florida Department of Corrections / AP

Lethal Injection

Florida executes man convicted of raping and killing a woman 3 decades ago

Death row inmate Richard Glossip on Feb. 19, 2021.
Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP file

Lethal Injection

Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip to face new murder trial but without death penalty

The exterior of a prison campus, a building is seen in the distance
Jason Connolly / AFP - Getty Images file

Lethal Injection

Federal judge denies attempt to block commuted death row inmates' transfer to 'Supermax' prison

Inmate Oscar Smith.
Tennessee Department of Correction via AP

Lethal Injection

Tennessee man is executed for killing his wife and her 2 sons, 3 years after last-minute reprieve

execution chamber walls unit
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Lethal Injection

Texas man executed 13 years to the day after store robbery in which he fatally set clerk on fire

Benjamin Ritchie, who was convicted in the 2000 killing of Beech Grove Police Officer Bill Toney
Indiana Department of Correction via AP

Lethal Injection

Man executed for the 2000 killing of police officer in Indiana's second execution in 15 years

Benjamin Ritchie, who was convicted in the 2000 killing of Beech Grove Police Officer Bill Toney
Indiana Department of Correction via AP

Lethal Injection

Indiana man set for execution in state's second since 2009

Jeffrey Hutchinson.
Devon Ravine / USA Today Network

Lethal Injection

Florida executes man for killing his girlfriend and her 3 children

 A gurney in Huntsville, Texas, in 2008.
Pat Sullivan / AP file

Lethal Injection

After Biden commuted federal death row sentences, DAs are weighing state charges

Lethal Injection

Alabama executes man who admitted guilt in 2010 rape and murder

Lethal Injection

Texas man executed for 2004 stabbing, strangling death

In Feb. 2024, at the rural intersection of Pleasant Valley and Ten Mile Creek roads in Kuna, Idaho, a warden acquired the state’s lethal injection drugs.
Google Maps

EXCLUSIVE

An Idaho warden acquired lethal injection drugs from an undisclosed supplier on a rural road

Michael Tanzi.
Florida Department of Corrections

Lethal Injection

Florida death row inmate says his morbid obesity would 'complicate' lethal injection, wants leniency

Richard Farley
Jim Gensheimer / AP file

Lethal Injection

Judge rejects California DA's request to change mass shooter's death sentence to life without parole

Wendell Grissom
Oklahoma Dept. of Corrections via AP file

Lethal Injection

Oklahoma executes man who killed a woman in a 2005 random home invasion robbery

Aaron Brian Gunches.
Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry

Lethal Injection

Arizona executes its first death row prisoner in more than 2 years

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46.
Attorneys for Jessie Hoffman

Lethal Injection

Louisiana executes man with nitrogen gas after 15-year pause

The Louisiana State Penitentiary
Giles Clarke / Getty Images file

Lethal Injection

Louisiana's first nitrogen gas execution blocked by federal judge

Aaron Brian Gunches, who was convicted of murder in the 2002 killing of Ted Price in Maricopa County, Ariz.
Arizona Department of Corrections / AP

Lethal Injection

An Arizona prisoner whose execution is coming up isn't asking for a reprieve

This undated image provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Brad Sigmon, convicted of beating to death his estranged girlfriend’s parents in Greenville County in 2001.
South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP

Lethal Injection

South Carolina kills death-row prisoner in state's first firing squad execution

Mugshot of Brad Sigmon; the firing squad execution chair, with straps and sandbags; the bullet-hole ridden wood paneling behind the chair.
NBC News; AP; Reuters

Lethal Injection

South Carolina prepares for first firing squad execution, ushering return of rare method

Texas to execute man for 2004 murders of strip club manager and friend
Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP

Lethal Injection

Texas executes man for 2004 murders of strip club manager and friend

Texas death row inmate Steven Lawayne Nelson poses for a photo in a visiting cage at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit outside Livingston, Texas, on Dec. 5, 2012.
Michael Graczyk / AP file

Lethal Injection

Texas man set to be executed for killing a pastor in his own church

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