According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

A group of health care experts said that if the Arizona Supreme Court issues a death warrant, it would trigger "a cascade of federal drug violations." ...

Side effects of biologic drugs may include: respiratory infections headaches flu-like symptoms swelling, itching, or a rash at the injection site urinary tract infection Two types of biologic ...

Among his flurry of day-one executive orders, President Donald Trump directed the Justice Department to help states obtain lethal injection drugs and launch ... serious questions about the drug ...

Among his flurry of day-one executive orders, President Donald Trump directed the Justice Department to help states obtain lethal injection ... about the drug pentobarbital sodium, “a sedative ...

Sodium-ion batteries show promise as a cheaper, more sustainable alternative to lithium-ion but need major advancements to become competitive. Stanford’s STEER study emphasizes that innovation, not ...

Garland on Wednesday said in a memo to the head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons that there was “significant uncertainty about whether the use of pentobarbital as a single-drug lethal injection ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state’s death chamber in ...

(Department of Justice via AP, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital, after ...

The federal government will no longer use pentobarbital in executions due to concerns of "unnecessary pain and suffering," a decision made less than one month after Tennessee announced it would be ...

Tennessee announced it had changed its execution protocol to using pentobarbital for lethal injections just last month. The state had conducted a multiyear review of its execution process ...