A federal lawsuit, started before the execution attempt ... there was a moratorium on executions in Alabama after Gov. Kay Ivey ordered a halt to all lethal injections in November, days after ...

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 ...

For more than 70 hours in late January, Anthony Mitchell wasn’t given any water in his jail cell, according to a recent lawsuit. Mitchell, a 33-year-old pretrial detainee at the Walker County ...

Alabama jail guards blew freezing air into the cell of a man who died, a lawsuit alleges. A new lawsuit alleges staffers the jail "caused extremely cold air to blow" into the man's cell. The man, ...

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.

Brad Little signed a bill allowing execution by firing squad, making Idaho the latest state to turn to older methods of capital punishment amid a nationwide shortage of lethal-injection drugs.

On Friday, March 24, 2023, the death row minister who was inside the execution chamber during Oklahoma's last lethal injection sued the Department of Corrections for $10 million, alleging the ...

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 ...