Following the execution of Billy Ray Irick, many had questions about the lethal injection drug cocktail used to kill him, and if he felt pain in his final moments. Midazolam, vecuronium bromide and ...

Back in 2012, the Arkansas Supreme Court struck down the state's lethal injection protocol, saying the Legislature had ceded too much power over the process to the Arkansas Department of Correction.

In this interview, law professor Corinna Barrett Lain discusses her book “Secrets of the Killing State,” which exposes the troubling realities behind lethal injection as a method of execution. Lain, a ...

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 ...