death drugs

From Texas Standard . Texas has been fighting to keep a secret for years now – the name of the pharmacy that supplies its execution drugs. But late last...

From Texas Standard: Following the execution of a Dallas man last week, the status of the state's supply of execution drugs is under new scrutiny. In a...

From Texas Standard: Back in July, Texas and Arizona were caught illegally importing a lethal injection drug compound as the product was passing through...

From Texas Standard: There is an execution scheduled for Wednesday in Oklahoma – but Texas is tied to the case. According to a court filing, the lawyer...

HUNTSVILLE — A 67-year-old man convicted of killing four men more than three decades ago was executed Wednesday, making him the oldest of the 526 Texas…

AUSTIN — The identity of Texas’ lethal drug supplier would remain confidential under a measure the state House approved Monday — bringing it to the cusp…

HUNTSVILLE — A Texas inmate was executed Tuesday for the killings of his 15-year-old girlfriend, her mother and her grandfather nearly 13 years ago in…

AUSTIN — The identity of execution drug makers for the nation’s busiest death chamber would remain confidential under a bill passed by the Texas…

Justice Sonia Sotomayor and lawyers arguing in favor of Oklahoma's lethal-injection cocktail got into a clash so pronounced that Chief Justice John Roberts chastised Sotomayor for talking too much.

Manufacturers have refused to provide one of three drugs used for lethal injection, so Oklahoma switched to another drug. But critics say midazolam doesn't work well to render prisoners unconscious.