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In the weeks following the execution of Clayton Lockett, the Oklahoma death row inmate whose botched lethal injection triggered a statewide moratorium on executions, lawmakers there began rethinking their approach to capital punishment. Among the people...

Undated file photo shows electric chair at Tennessee state prison in Nashville. AP Last Updated May 23, 2014 12:30 AM EDT NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Tennessee has decided how it will respond to a nationwide scarcity of lethal injection drugs for death-row...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As the rest of the nation debates the feasibility and humanity of lethal injections against a backdrop of scarce drugs and botched executions, Tennessee has come up with an alternative: the electric chair. Republican Gov...

A federal judge in Arizona Friday ordered state officials to disclose to the lawyers of two death row inmates basic information about the compounded drug executioners plan to use later this month when they inject the men with a lethal chemical. It was...

by Raymond Bonner, Special to ProPublica States that impose the death penalty have been facing a crisis in recent years: They are short on the drugs used in executions. In California, which has the country's largest death row population, the chief...