The comments came in new documents filed Monday in Kenneth Smith’s federal lawsuit. Smith was set to be executed by lethal injection in November 2022, but survived after Alabama Department of ...

Family of Anthony ‘Tony’ Mitchell, Alabama man who died in police custody ... the ‘drunk tank’ in the booking area,” the lawsuit states. The cell allegedly lacks a bunk, a sink or ...

Idaho Governor Brad Little (R), shown here meeting with then Vice President Mike Pence in 2020, signed a bill authorizing ...

Idaho is the latest state to turn to older methods of capital punishment amid a nationwide shortage of lethal-injection drugs ...

Republican Gov. Brad Little signed a bill allowing execution by firing squad, making Idaho the latest state to turn to older ...

Another former resident filed a civil lawsuit against Sequel TSI of Tuskegee ... contracted mental health facilities for children in Alabama. Claims of abuse in these Alabama facilities ...

Idaho is poised to allow firing squads to execute condemned inmates when the state can't get lethal-injection drugs, under a bill the Legislature passed Monday with a veto-proof majority.

While the bill would mandate execution by firing squad in cases where lethal injection drugs are not available, it also contains a provision stating that firing squad will become the state's ...

Firing squads will be used only if the state cannot obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections. At least one death row inmate has already had his scheduled execution postponed multiple times ...

Pharmaceutical companies increasingly have barred executioners from using their drugs, saying they were meant to save lives.