For years, the idea of establishing supervised drug injection sites has been a long-standing goal for some progressive California leaders looking to address the burgeoning overdose crisis. Efforts to ...

Idaho’s stockpile of execution drugs, which is housed at the Idaho state prison complex south of Boise, has cost taxpayers $200,000 over the past two years. All of the hard-to-find chemicals have ...

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 ...

Following the execution of Billy Ray Irick, many had questions about the lethal injection drug cocktail used to kill him, and if he felt pain in his final moments. Midazolam, vecuronium bromide and ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the weeks leading up to what was expected to be a second attempt to execute Idaho’s longest-serving death row prisoner, state ...

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 ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. ROCHESTER, N.H. — Megan Merrill paused, mid-hike, as she surveyed the steep drop before her. She was standing on a five-foot snow drift, icy ...

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 ...

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 ...