Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Fla., in 2018, faces either life imprisonment or the death ...

Moreover, those "botched" executions constituted fewer than 1 percent of all lethal injections carried out in the United States. In few, if any, human endeavors is it possible to ensure a greater than ...

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 ...

It would be an understatement to say Ohio has had many problems administering capital punishment. Over the last decade, the state granted clemency to 10 people and botched four executions, including ...