I don't know the medical rationale, no. . . . Regarding the specific amounts of individual drugs, I have no knowledge as to what drug quantities were used, or why they may have differed from other ...

(CBS/AP) Are the drugs used for lethal injection bad for your health? The short answer is clearly yes. They certainly were for Teresa Lewis, the mentally challenged woman who was put to death Thursday ...

1 Dewitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 2 Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, ...

RICHMOND (AP) -- Virginia has added a new drug to be used in executions to replace one that is in short supply. The Virginia Department of Corrections said Friday that Rocuronium Bromide can now be ...

For the first time in the 482 executions that Texas has performed since the death penalty was reinstated in 1982, the state will not use a three-drug cocktail. The state was forced to make a change ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Attorney General’s Office confirms the state has acquired the drugs needed to execute two Oklahoma death row inmates this month. Clayton Lockett is scheduled to die on April 22.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Ohio’s new three-drug lethal injection process, jeopardizing the upcoming executions of several condemned killers. In a 2-1 decision, the ...

Oklahoma revealed Tuesday it intends to use an untested cocktail to execute two death-row inmates later this month. A letter from the state's Attorney General said that the Oklahoma Department of ...

The shortage of two chemicals that are part of the so-called three-drug "cocktail" used to execute most prisoners in the United States is causing some states to postpone executions or scramble to come ...

Britain said Thursday it will block the export of three lethal injection drugs to the United States and is also urging a Europe-wide ban on American sales of the drugs. Business Secretary Vince Cable ...

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Background: Lethal injection for execution was conceived as a comparatively humane alternative to electrocution or cyanide gas. The current protocols are based on one improvised by a medical examiner ...