Both the federal government and South Carolina carry out the lethal injections using a single drug, pentobarbital, a powerful ...

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 ...

If the execution is carried out as planned, Sigmon is to be strapped to a chair in the death chamber and have a hood placed ...

Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad, a method of execution that has ...

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 ...

A man accused of running an online drug business that illegally sold a lethal drug used in suicides pleaded guilty in Chicago ...

Lawyers filed a motion to halt proceedings to determine whether the information the state provides about its lethal injection ...

Sigmon argues that recent executions, including the January 31 execution of Marion Bowman, reveal that South Carolina’s ...

1. Through IV lines connected to his arms flowed the drug pentobarbital, a powerful sedative that South Carolina uses to execute inmates. Moore was the second of three inmates executed since South ...

Michael Wade Nance, 63, argued that an injection of the sedative pentobarbital, the only execution method authorized in the state, could cause him severe pain because of his medical issues, in ...