Death Penalty

Where Death Dies: The Curious Afterlife of Execution Chambers

By Josh Sanburn

IV Lines Were Placed Properly in Prolonged Execution

By Josh Sanburn

Arizona Botched Execution Prompts Concern Over Lethal-Injection Drugs

By Nash Jenkins

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California Judge Rules Death Penalty Unconstitutional

Uncertainties and delays over executions violate the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, says federal judge

By Josh Sanburn

One Executed, 2 Remain

Convicts in Florida, Georgia and Missouri were set to die within a 24 hour period for the first time since the botched lethal injection in Oklahoma last month

By Denver Nicks

Tennessee May Bring Back the Electric Chair

Tennessee said it would bring back the electric chair if it couldn't get its hands on drugs to perform legal executions, amid growing shortages of the drugs used in lethal injections, questions about their humaneness and a recent botched execution

By Eliana Dockterman

The Death Penalty's Underlying Problem

The death penalty illustrates our tendency to separate people into two groups: monsters who commit heinous crimes and everyone else.

By Galen Guengerich

First Lethal Injection Due Since Botched Execution

Russell Bucklew's lethal injection, scheduled for 12:01 Wednesday morning, will be the first since the April 29 botched execution of Clayton Lockett

By Maya Rhodan

Newspapers Sue Missouri Over Execution-Drug Secrecy

The Guardian, the Associated Press and three local newspapers have joined forces in the growing controversy over death-penalty transparency. The lawsuit challenges Missouri's refusal — new as of October last year — to disclose the source of execution drugs

By Denver Nicks and Josh Sanburn

Botched Oklahoma Execution Should Prompt Moral Outcry Among Evangelicals

As Christians, we believe that the image of God exists in all human beings. It is for this reason that I have recently launched the Imago Dei, a global campaign initiated and led by Christ...

By Samuel Rodriguez

The Slippery Slope From Medicine to Lethal Injection

Inmates who are being executed are not patients, and yet it seems that lethal injection attempts to turn them into such.

By Dr. Joel B. Zivot

Inside the Botched Execution of Clayton Lockett

Oklahoma death row inmate Clayton Lockett died following a botched lethal injection execution this week. Prison officials say he died of a heart attack, but what actually happened behind the execution chamber’s closed doors is anyone’s guess

By Josh Sanburn

There Is No Such Thing as a Safe Execution

A botched lethal injection in Oklahoma reveals the growing mess the American death penalty is becoming.

By Jeffrey Kluger

Ohio Ups Lethal Doses After Controversial Execution

After the January execution of Dennis McGuire who reportedly made snorting and snoring noises during the 25-minute process, the state will increase the strength of the lethal drugs used for future executions

By Josh Sanburn

Many of the Condemned on Death Row Are Innocent

New research finds that almost four percent of U.S. capital punishment sentences are wrongful convictions, almost double the number of people set free, meaning around 120 of the roughly 3,000 inmates on death row in America are not guilty

By David Von Drehle

Death Row Inmates Won't Know Source of Lethal Drugs

Oklahoma death row inmates Clayton Lockett and Charles Warner (pictured) had petitioned for the public naming of the manufacturer of drugs to be used in their executions, but a court has found against them and they could face execution as early as next week

By Per Liljas

Oklahoma Supreme Court halts execution of 2 inmates

Citing "grave constitutional claims," the court ruled 5-4 to stay the executions of 2 men convicted of murder over concerns about the drug cocktail used for lethal injections

By Maya Rhodan

The First Photograph of an Execution by Electric Chair

With Tennessee Senators voting to reinstate the electric chair to execute capital inmates, TIME looks at the first known photograph of this controversial form of capital punishment.

By Erica Fahr Campbell

Mississippi Orders New Murder Trial for Michelle Byrom

The Mississippi woman convicted of plotting her husband's murder in 2000 was granted a new trial on Monday, days after her postponed death by lethal injection would have made her the first woman executed in the state in seven decades

By Laura Stampler
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