Death penalty

Nidal Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in a shooting at the military base in 2009.

Tennessee’s executioners had difficulties earlier this year with IV lines for another execution, leading to it being called off.

A Tennessee judge ruled that the state must preserve evidence related to Pike’s failed execution for a murder she committed at 18. The victim, Colleen Slemmer, was 19.

Jamaal Howard’s attorneys unsuccessfully sought to block the execution by arguing that he faced the same risks similar to those in Pike’s case due to pentobarbital use.

Pike survived two doses of pentobarbital as Tennessee officials attempted to put her to death for the 1995 beating and stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer.

Little has been released about Pike’s condition since Wednesday night’s execution attempt as she remains hospitalized under guard.

The stunning failure in Tennessee’s execution chamber on Wednesday has left both sides on the death penalty debate demanding answers.

Her attorney called the process cruel and torturous, saying he was “haunted” by what he saw after the execution team struggled to find a vein.

During the Biden administration, the Justice Department stopped executions with pentobarbital after a government review raised concerns about the potential for “unnecessary pain and suffering.”

Witnesses described snoring, gasps and complaints from Christa Gail Pike about pain, as well as her kicking her feet so often that she knocked off the sheets laid over her.

Christa Pike was 18 when she killed a classmate and became one of the youngest women to be sent to death row. Now 50, she is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday.

James Aren Duckett, 68, died by lethal injection at noon at Florida State Prison near Starke, followed later that day by 80-year-old Dominick Anthony Occhicone, who is the oldest prisoner executed in Florida’s modern history.

The Justice Department to allow firing squads as a method of execution as the Trump administration moves to expedite capital punishment cases.

A Missouri man who long maintained his innocence was executed Tuesday for the fatal shooting of a state trooper more than 20 years ago.

NBC News’ Lester Holt is dropping a new Dateline podcast on Monday, taking a look at the high-profile death row case of Robert Roberson.

Alabama is preparing to execute a man convicted of killing a woman during a 1997 gas station robbery.

A Texas man is facing execution for killing his girlfriend’s 13-month-old daughter in what the couple had said was part of an “exorcism.”

A new execution date has been set for Robert Roberson, a Texas man who won a reprieve last year after a flurry of last-ditch legal challenges.

A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago. It is the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks.