In both their methods and their commitment to institutional secrecy, comparisons between American capital punishment and Nazi state homicide are inevitable.
Junk science helped put a Texas mother on death row. Could real science set her free?
First responders and healthcare workers are the backbone of America—until we inconvenience the machinery of death.
The formula that Oklahoma will use to kill Michael Smith is responsible for lethal injection's most horrifying failures.
Why more isn't always better.
Plus: Willie Pye's upcoming execution.
The protocols, the providers, and the patients make for the worst mix imaginable.
Chosen for convenience rather than effectiveness, the barbiturate hasn't changed much about lethal injection's record.
Once more, with feeling: "That isn't how this works."
As their predecessors did with lethal injection, prison officials are pushing to adopt nitrogen gas asphyxiation despite evidence it doesn't deliver on its promises.
In 2015, the Supreme Court didn't care if Richard Glossip got tortured to death. This fall, they'll hear arguments about whether it matters if he did it.
Should we expect a better result when Alabama kills Kenny Smith via the new Great White Hope of the death penalty?
