Charles Brooks Jr. became the first person in the United States to be executed using lethal injection. On December 7, 1982, in Huntsville, Texas, Brooks was given a three-drug mixture to end his life: ...

Texas was the first U.S. state to execute someone by lethal injection, but the idea for the novel method came from Oklahoma. Our northern neighbor was the first to adopt the plan to replace the ...

Under those guidelines, lethal injections of companion or laboratory animals are limited to injection by qualified personnel of certain clinically tested, Food and Drug Administration-approved ...

Lawyers for a Florida man on death row are seeking to halt his upcoming execution, arguing that his obesity and health conditions could cause his chosen method of lethal injection to go wrong.

BRADFORD COUNTY, Fla. (WKRC) - A death row inmate's lawyers filed documents requesting that their client be exempt from lethal injection due to his morbid obesity. 48-year-old Michael Tanzi was ...

A discreet delivery pulled up outside of Idaho’s maximum-security prison near Boise in the state’s exhaustive quest for lethal injection drugs 1 1⁄2 years ago. Just outside of the prison ...

48-year-old Michael Tanzi is to be executed by lethal injection in Florida on Tuesday for the 2000 murder of a newspaper employee. Michael Tanzi is to be executed by ...

Background: Lethal injection for execution was conceived as a comparatively humane alternative to electrocution or cyanide gas. The current protocols are based on one improvised by a medical ...

In February 2024, at the rural intersection of Pleasant Valley and Ten Mile Creek roads in Kuna, Idaho, a warden acquired the state’s lethal injection drugs.

A death row inmate who was dubbed a “fledgling serial killer” is set to be executed via lethal injection despite his lawyers claiming he is "too obese". Officials have decided that the ...