Last year, a new execution method was used in the U.S. for the first time since 1982. Here’s a look at how people have been ...

An autopsy report for a South Carolina man executed with the state’s lethal injection protocol raises more questions about whether the process is an unusually cruel and painful method of execution.

Charles Reynolds ... and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put 592 people to death, according to online records. Charlie Brooks was that first in that ...