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Eizember spent his final days fighting the state over his right to have a spiritual adviser present in the death chamber.

Monday’s Supreme Court death penalty decision sparked outrage. But the court has long given constitutional cover to the most grotesque executions.

Confronted with mounting evidence that midazolam causes excruciating pain, a judge warned that Ohio’s lethal injection protocol was likely unconstitutional.

Investigations into wrongful convictions and the death penalty were joined this year by important work on predictive policing, voting rights, and #MeToo.

The trial was a case study in the twisted legacy of Glossip v. Gross — and a close-up look at the botched executions that continue amid little controversy.

After a sweeping review of Oklahoma’s system of capital punishment, a bipartisan panel warns that the state must correct “systemic flaws.”

The Senate Judiciary Committee grilled Gorsuch about euthanasia and abortion, yet utterly failed to probe his record on capital punishment.

The more Ohio has tinkered with its lethal injection protocol, the more executions have been disastrously botched.

Billy Ray Irick, scheduled to die on August 9, is just one of many people condemned to die in Tennessee despite evidence of severe mental illness.

Just months after Ohio failed to kill 69-year-old Alva Campbell, Alabama tried for two and a half hours to execute Hamm, a man with terminal cancer.