Arizona State Sen. Kevin Payne has a very bad idea. Earlier this month, Payne introduced a proposal in the Arizona Senate to ask voters to amend the state constitution in order to allow the use of the ...

California issued a stay of execution for Michael Angelo Morales in 2006, sparking a debate about the ethical implications of ...

Arizona Republicans are advancing a proposal to bring back firing squad executions, including as a mandatory option for those ...

A prisoner who survived an execution attempt because of a mistake with a lethal injection drug has got married - almost three years on from his brush with death. Richard Glossip's bride, Leigha ...

Death row inmates in two states are taking legal action to stop states from using the kind of multi-drug protocol that resulted in botched executions in Oklahoma and Ohio. The inmates are not ...

And I'm Robert Siegel. A botched execution in Oklahoma last week has turned a spotlight on how states put inmates to death. In all 32 states that have the death penalty, lethal injection is the ...

Republican Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, here with Michael C. Thompson, state secretary of safety and security, charged that the state Supreme Court had exceeded its jurisdiction when it called for a ...

Each week, Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin brings listeners an unexpected side of the news by talking with someone personally affected by the stories making headlines. As a criminal justice ...

Alabama executed Robert Bert Smith on Friday night in what his federal public defender is calling a “botched” operation that appeared to cause Smith pain. He “gasped and heaved” for 13 minutes, ...

It would be an understatement to say Ohio has had many problems administering capital punishment. Over the last decade, the state granted clemency to 10 people and botched four executions, including ...