A look at the process of Harold Nichol's execution and why his lawyer fought to give his client information about drugs used. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The State of Tennessee held its third execution ...

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TALLAHASSEE — Accusing the state of “reckless maladministration” of the lethal-injection process, an attorney for condemned killer ...

The state executed Harold “Wayne” Nichols Thursday morning by lethal injection. Nichols, 64, was Tennessee’s third execution in seven months after a three-year hiatus in executions following a botched ...

Executions in the US are becoming increasingly cruel, with states adopting new methods such as nitrogen hypoxia and lethal ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State ...

Florida’s rules for animal euthanasia, created in the 1990s, span a full page. Its guidance for executions by lethal injection, drawn up almost a decade later, takes up just two sentences. The ...