The 50-year-old convicted murderer remained alive after receiving two doses of pentobarbital on Sept. 30 and has been ...

On Sept. 30, Christa Pike became the first known person to survive a lethal injection. While lethal injection is the most ...

The quest for “more humane” execution methods, ostensibly an effort to minimize the discomfort of condemned criminals, ...

Lethal injection is often seen as a humane method of execution, but botched procedures and evidence of severe pain challenge that perception.

It’s the most error-prone method of execution and has gone wrong several times this year. Christa Pike’s case was the latest.

Christa Pike survived two lethal injection doses and has been in hospital since last week.

Oklahoma’s use of a three-drug lethal injection method is constitutional, a federal judge ruled Monday following a lawsuit from nearly 30 people on death row challenging the protocol. The suit, ...