Florida's new procedure for lethal injections could be tested Tuesday when executioners strap down a condemned inmate for the first time since a botched execution. ...more

June 30, 2008

The Florida Supreme Court cleared all state legal obstacles to the July 1 execution of child killer Mark Dean Schwab on Wednesday, but he could take his case to the federal courts. ...more

May 22, 2008

Barring a last-minute intervention by the courts, a condemned killer who shot his live-in girlfriend is likely to become the first inmate put to death since a U.S. Supreme Court review halted executions in September. ...more

May 6, 2008

The Supreme Court gave a skeptical hearing Monday to lawyers who are challenging the use of lethal injections to carry out executions in the United States. ...more

January 8, 2008

The state did not execute any death row inmates this year for the first time in 25 years, the result of legal and ethical challenges to lethal injection that temporarily have halted executions nationwide. ...more

December 29, 2007

Florida's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state's lethal injection procedures are not cruel and unusual, which could clear the way for an execution scheduled this month. ...more

November 2, 2007

The Supreme Court halted an execution in Mississippi on Tuesday, less than an hour before a convicted killer was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection. ...more

October 31, 2007

Stop executions for a while and perhaps they can be stopped forever. That calculation has been part of the strategy of capital punishment opponents for decades. ...more

October 21, 2007

The U.S. Supreme Court, not its Florida counterpart, should decide whether to stay an execution scheduled next month while the federal justices consider a lethal injection challenge, a lawyer for the state argued Thursday. ...more

October 13, 2007