FoulsCode

In May 1990, Jonathan Eig, then a reporter for The New Orleans Times-Picayune, witnessed the electric-chair-execution of Dalton Prejean at A...

Move follows Alabama’s recent killing of death row inmate Kenneth Smith using previously untested methodThree of the largest manufacturers o...

The governor also signed bills that eliminate parole for adults who commit crimes after Aug. 1 and dramatically cut the availability of good...

Eight times, a medical team in an Idaho prison tried to establish an intravenous line to deliver a lethal injection to condemned inmate Thom...

Louisiana is on the cusp of resuming death penalty executions for the first time in more than a decade after the Legislature gave final pass...

They claim it’s ‘untested, dangerous and inhumane,’ while a proponent calls it ‘painless’ and not subject to shortagesLINCOLN — A proposal t...

As the Rev. Jeff Hood was leaving for work one day back in January, his children begged him for one thing: to come back alive.“The kids woul...

KUNA, Idaho (AP) — For nearly an hour, Thomas Eugene Creech lay strapped to a table in an Idaho execution chamber as medical team members po...

After the recent nitrogen gas execution in Alabama of Kenneth Smith, state Attorney General Steve Marshall said that nitrogen gas “was inten...

After it intersected with his job as an anesthesiologist, Dr. Joel Zivot devoted years to studying the death penalty. Now, he's concerne...

Alabama has asked the state's Supreme Court to approve a date for death row inmate Alan Eugene Miller's execution, which would be ca...

An investigation by the Associated Press reveals major brands' ties to prison labor.Although The Takeout often writes about fun fast foo...

Alabama in late January became the first state to use nitrogen gas in an execution, finding a new way to carry out a death sentence after dr...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama death row inmate filed a lawsuit Thursday that challenges the constitutionality of nitrogen gas execution...

MOBILE, Ala. — Marco Perez was sentenced Friday to be executed, a Mobile County jury decided on Friday, one day after convicting 24-year-old...

Convicted killer Kenneth Eugene Smith's agonizing death on gurney left people wary of the new punishment, our first-of-its-kind poll rev...

Countless cases lay bare the raw injustice of the death penalty in the United States. The case of Richard Glossip is certainly one of them. ...

Lethal injection only permitted method since death penalty reinstated in 1994TOPEKA — Attorney General Kris Kobach introduced a bill in the ...

“We didn’t see somebody go unconscious in 30 seconds. What we saw was minutes of someone struggling for their life." The first use of g...

This past week Alabama continued our country’s experiment with different ways to kill people. It executed Kenneth Smith.A brief history. In ...