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The federal government is set to resume executions with the drug pentobarbital, despite concerns it might violate the Eighth Amendment.

"This is not a happy night. This is the end of a horror story," the McLennan County District Attorney said.

The inmates argued that the state has the means to orchestrate their deaths by firing squad.

Rodney Scott Berget was executed by lethal injection for a 2011 murder during a failed attempt to escape from jail.

Three days before his scheduled execution, convicted killer Edmund Zagorski convinced Tennessee's Supreme Court to spare him death by lethal injection in favor of the electric chair.

Carey Dean Moore has been on death row for almost 40 years.

Bible, 66, was executed on Wednesday in Huntsville.

The most important question is whether killing prisoners with nitrogen is cruel and unusual, the constitutional threshold for death penalty implementation.

Moody killed a judge and an attorney in December 1989 using package bombs.

Oklahoma is one of many states attempting to move beyond lethal injection as a method of execution.

The ACLU said that in attaining a DEA registration to import drugs, Nebraska listed a licensed prison pharmacy that's not located where the drugs will be used for the executions.

Doyle Lee Hamm's execution was abandoned after 2.5 hours when medical staff could not find a suitable vein in his groin, feet or legs.

Capital punishment cases are down but five of the 23 executions this year still highlight the arguments of those who oppose the death penalty.

An opioid at the heart of America's drug epidemic will be used for death row executions in Nevada and Nebraska if the never-before-tried combination of drugs is approved.

A Nevada inmate has asked a judge for his execution to take place on Tuesday after pleading for a year to be put to death.

This will mark the first time in Florida's history a white man has been executed for killing a black man.

The forensic pathologist doesn't want his legacy to be creation of the country's first lethal injection method.

Ledelle Lee and Kenneth Williams received communion, while Marcel Williams and Jack Jones had more elaborate requests.

The state rushed to execute death row prisoners before a drug used in lethal injections expired.

Governor Asa Hutchinson scheduled several executions of death row inmates before the state's supply of midazolam expires. But experts question whether the drug should ever have been part of lethal injections in the first place.

The double execution took place days after the state ended a nearly 12-year hiatus on executing prisoners on death row.

Ledell Lee, one of eight men sentenced to death, was executed on Thursday night.

Staring in January, Ohio will again begin executing inmates after halting the practice in 2014.

The U.S. is also among the world's top five countries in terms of executions.

Battaglia murdered his daughters, aged 6 and 9, as their mother listened on the phone.

Attorneys for Adam Ward, convicted of killing a city worker in 2005, claim he suffers from delusions, bipolar disorder and paranoia.

The state was unsuccessful when it first tried to execute Romell Broom in 2009.

Texas to execute Coy "Elvis Wayne" Wesbrook after spending 17 years on death row.

Georgia is slated to execute a former sailor on Wednesday for the murder and dismemberment of a fellow shipmate 24 years ago.

James Freeman, now 34, is set to be executed on Wednesday for the 2007 shooting death of state game warden Justin Hurst.