At just 19, Gray's violent streak escalated when he savagely murdered his 16-year-old girlfriend, Elda Louise Prince, in ...

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Clayton Lockett was executed iafter he was convicted of murder, rape and kidnapping - and his ...

Senate Bill 11 was introduced as lethal injection drugs have become more expensive and hard to get, leading some states to ...

McALESTER, Okla. -- A botched execution that used a new drug combination left an Oklahoma inmate writhing and clenching his teeth on the gurney Tuesday, leading prison officials to halt the ...

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At first Oklahoma prison officials suspected that a new drug combination caused Clayton Lockett to writhe in pain and clench his teeth during a botched execution. But a new autopsy report reveals that ...

An Oklahoma death row inmate has been given a six-month stay of execution while officials investigate how the lethal injection of a different inmate, Clayton Lockett, went horribly wrong, the New York ...

An Alabama inmate said prison staff poked him with needles for over an hour as they tried to find a vein during an aborted lethal injection last month. At one point, they left him hanging vertically ...

Today, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit along with The Guardian and The Oklahoma Observer against Oklahoma prison officials. The lawsuit seeks to take the literal ...

Idaho officials recently put off the execution of a convicted murderer because the state couldn't legally find the drugs needed to kill him.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The botched execution of an Oklahoma inmate is certain to fire up the debate over what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment -- the phrase written into the U.S. Constitution and ...

Oklahoma inmate Clayton Lockett was tasered by guards, and cut his own arm, in the hours just before his ultimately botched execution at the hands of the state's Department of Corrections. Lockett ...