Six men are scheduled to be executed in the next week and half, and if the lethal injections are carried out, they will all go through the same process.Inmates will be held in a holding cell in the ...

State corrections officials Tuesday proposed new lethal injection procedures, a first step toward resuming executions in California after a four-year halt. The proposals involve only minor changes to ...

The national impact of the unprecedented halting of a rapist’s execution after two hours and temporary reprieves for other condemned inmates likely will become clear over the next few months as courts ...

State officials launched a two-month forum Friday for public comment on revised lethal injection procedures in a step toward resuming executions as early as next year. But the California Department of ...

On Friday, executions by lethal injection were suspended in Florida following a botched execution, and a federal judge in California ruled that the state must overhaul its death penalty methods, in ...