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Idaho officials allow media witnesses to see the first step of lethal injection executions — placing an inmate on a gurney ...

A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago. It is the second time the ...

McVeigh was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. After his trial, ...

BOISE, Idaho — A federal magistrate judge heard arguments Tuesday morning in a lawsuit brought by three news organizations that say Idaho prison officials are unconstitutionally hiding parts of ...

Idaho officials allow media witnesses to see the first step of lethal injection executions — placing an inmate on a gurney and inserting the IV lines — as well as the third step of the process ...

Six were carried out by lethal injection, two by nitrogen gas and one ... of you that I've hurt," Grissom said while strapped to the gurney, an IV line affixed to his right arm.

"Mikal chose the firing squad instead of being burned and mutilated in the electric chair, or suffering a lingering death on the lethal injection gurney." ...