The death penalty is in trouble — drug shortages, botched executions and lawsuits are calling the idea of a “humane” execution into question. Some states are returning to previously abandoned […]

The state is shielding interviews its attorneys conducted with about 20 prison employees involved in the January execution of an inmate who repeatedly gasped and snorted as he was put […]

The Voice of Russia talked to Kevin Werner, Executive Director of Ohioans to Stop Executions, a non-profit education and advocacy organization working to end the death penalty in Ohio.

A federal judge ordered a temporary moratorium on Ohio executions while legal issues related to new lethal-injection procedures are worked out in court. The order, issued Tuesday by U.S. District […]