Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Little is known about how Indiana acquired pentobarbital, a drug that state officials plan to use to restart executions for the ...

Texas executed Manuel Garza Jr, its sixth inmate this year on Wednesday, marking its second execution in a week after the death of Kent Sprouse last Thursday. Out of 13 executions in the U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases, officials said ...

The questions surrounding Texas’ supply of Pentobarbital—the drug the state uses to carry out executions, of which it recently acquired a new supply of unknown provenance—have only deepened over the ...

(CBS/AP) When the time came to execute John David Duty on Thursday, Oklahoma put the convicted killer down like a dog. That is, they gave him pentobarbital, a sedative used to euthanize pets. Duty, ...

Amber McLaughlin, convicted of murder, on Tuesday became the first openly transgender person to be executed in the United States. The 49-year-old was reportedly accompanied by a spiritual adviser when ...

JBS Souderton Inc. continued to distribute pentobarbital-adulterated products to customers even after receiving formal notification of pentobarbital contamination, according to a warning letter issued ...

The decision by the Danish firm to ban use of pentobarbital as a US execution drug may deal a fatal blow to capital punishment The announcement by Danish pharmaceutical firm Lundbeck on Friday that it ...

Citing the possible presence of pentobarbital, a chemical used to euthanize animals, pet food maker Evanger's has issued a partial recall of its popular Hunk of Beef Au Jus product. Several pugs grew ...

After state officials announced last week that Indiana will resume executions for the first time in over a decade, secrecy largely remains about the new drug, pentobarbital, acquired for the impending ...