Reporting from San Francisco — California unveiled a new method for executing prisoners Friday, proposing a “humane and dignified” single-drug injection protocol that could restart capital punishment ...

An Ohio murderer put to death with the nation’s first single-drug lethal injection died swiftly Tuesday, inaugurating an execution method some analysts consider more humane than the three-drug ...

2006-12-15 16:26:00 PST SAN JOSE-- California's method of executing condemned prisoners by lethal injection lacks safeguards, is carried out by poorly trained staff and will be declared ...

Death row inmate Albert Greenwood Brown was given until noon Sunday to decide what method of lethal injection the state should use to end his life – a single drug or three-drug cocktail. He refused.

SACRAMENTO — California state regulators for the second time Monday rejected a proposed new method of carrying out the death penalty, another move that slows the process for California to resume ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Governor Schwarzenegger of California said his administration will change the state’s method of lethal injection to guarantee the execution procedure doesn’t inflict pain or discomfort ...