Medical experts and death row inmates file legal briefs challenging legality of Arizona's execution drugs ahead of March ...

Aaron Gunches was sentenced to death and he’s ready to die. The state is ready to accommodate him. So, what’s the problem?

Steven Lawayne Nelson was executed Wednesday for killing an Arlington pastor, a crime he maintained he did not commit, though ...

High altitude pulmonary edema, or HAPE, is a progression of the breathlessness feeling. It is caused by a dilation of blood vessels in the lungs to allow more oxygen to flow. If the blood vessels leak ...

Mira-Bhayandar: A 26-year-old woman with extremely low hemoglobin levels and battling catastrophic antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APLA) syndrome during her eighth month of pregnancy, delivered a ...

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said the decision by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland did not change her view of Arizona's death protocol.

Steven Lawayne Nelson has maintained that while he participated unknowingly in a violent church robbery, he did not harm ...

Outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland’s order cited reports of autopsies on executed prisoners that showed, in many cases, signs of a potentially excruciating condition in which blood flows into ...

Negative-pressure pulmonary edema (NPPE) occurs when a large, negative intrathoracic pressure is generated against an obstructed upper airway, causing fluid to shift into the lung interstitium.

He cited an earlier memo he wrote, saying medical experts have concluded that using only pentobarbital for lethal injections — as Arizona does — can lead to pulmonary edema. "That protocol ...

A lethal injection expert has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to deny the attorney general's request for an execution warrant for Aaron Gunches, citing concerns about the state's death penalty ...