Update in case as death row woman set to be first in 200 years executed in US state

Christa Pike, the only woman on death row in Tennessee, launched a lawsuit against the state in a bid to stop her scheduled ...

Lethal injection nears for man who murdered Palm Bay woman 35 years ago

Chadwick Willacy has been on Florida’s death row since 1991 for the murder of Marlys Sather. In 1990, Willacy assaulted ...
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New book exposes Missouri's error-filled execution process of lethal injection

Lethal injection is tainted with error, ineptitude and secrecy that's led to many botched executions and unnecessary suffering. Missouri passed a law shielding the identity of the people involved in ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press

Tennessee executes Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection for killing Chattanooga woman in 1988

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State ...
Chicago Tribune

Indiana Senate bill would allow firing squad for death penalty

A bill allowing for firing squad executions for death penalty inmates was filed in the Indiana legislature for the 2026 session. Senate Bill 11, filed by State Sen. Michael Young, would allow for ...
Independent Florida Alligator

Cruel and unusual? Florida executions face legal scrutiny over lethal injection

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 ...