An autopsy report for a South Carolina man executed with the state’s lethal injection protocol raises more questions about ...

Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying ...

“This culture of noncompliance, when combined with the risk-prone nature of pentobarbital poisoning as a method of execution, creates a high risk that a person receiving a lethal injection ...

High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE) HAPE results from fluid buildup in the ... and a persistent productive cough bringing up white, watery, or frothy fluid. Confusion, and irrational behavior are ...

The lawsuit filed in Davidson County Chancery Court on Friday cites recent evidence showing pentobarbital, a barbituate, can cause pulmonary edema when ... inmates had frothy fluid in the lungs ...