James Edward Smith asked for a lump of dirt, but his request was denied. He settled for a cup of yogurt instead.

Lawyers for a Florida man on death row are seeking to halt his execution set for next week, arguing that his obesity could ...

A Florida death row inmate who was convicted of kidnapping and killing a woman in 2000 is asking the court to show him ...

Lawyers for convicted murderer Michael Tanzi say that his weight and health conditions could cause a lethal injection ...

A death row inmate's lawyers filed documents requesting that their client be exempt from lethal injection due to his morbid obesity.

Today in Ohio podcast exposes how Attorney General Dave Yost and Republican lawmakers are waging a meaningless battle for ...

A new book called The Volunteer is looking at the death penalty in America through the eyes of Nevada inmate Scott Dozier, ...

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

Despite being convicted in the state that has executed the most people in the country since the reinstatement of the death ...

Each death penalty case is autho­rized by the DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., in con­sul­ta­tion with local U.S.

A bill could make firing squads and lethal gas options in Florida executions as a shortage of pentobarbital, used for lethal ...