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Christopher Young’s execution would be the eighth this year in Texas, one more than all of last year in the nation’s busiest capital punishment state

The building has been vacant since last year, when inmates rioted, taking staffers hostage and killing CO Steven Floyd

A disturbance at the jail last month that a spokesman downplayed as one person acting up was in fact a protest by dozens of prisoners

More than 100 inmates were involved in the riot at the Sierra Conservation Center, officials said

A lawsuit challenging the state’s lethal injection protocols has blocked Louisiana from carrying out any death sentences since 2014

Hours before he was to be put to death, Scott Dozier was spared execution Wednesday when a Nevada judge granted an injunction

A lawsuit challenging Alabama’s lethal injection process took an unexpected turn after the inmates asked to be executed by nitrogen gas

The inmate had been placed on a gurney with his wrists and ankles in restraints when he managed to get free

A sedative that officials plan to use for Scott Dozier’s execution is blamed for problems during other executions

The family of a CO, who was killed by a former jail inmate in 2005, will receive more than $275,000 in federal funds