Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On May 22, Oscar Smith, who was convicted of killing his wife and her two teenage sons, was executed in Tennessee by lethal ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- It's been less than a week since New York City opened its first supervised injection sites, and the mayor says many lives have already been saved. Mayor Bill de Blasio says ...

With lethal injection drugs proving both costly and difficult to obtain, a growing number of Republican lawmakers and state officials are pushing for an alternative: the firing squad. Lethal injection ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of drugs Indiana bought to carry out executions were wasted. Gov. Mike Braun told a gathering of reporters Tuesday that Indiana ...

In a quiet corner of Glasgow’s East End, a radical public health experiment is underway. For the first time in the United Kingdom, people who inject illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine can do so ...

Evansville, Ind. — Lavender Timmons popped the trunk of her weather-beaten 2007 Ford Focus parked near the city’s homeless shelter. Regulars gathered around, including one drug user who in the past ...