Duncan was told by ADCRR personnel that the pentobarbital salt can last forever. But Kelley Henry, a federal defender in ...

The federal government will no longer use pentobarbital in executions due to concerns of "unnecessary pain and suffering," a decision made less than one month after Tennessee announced it would be ...

The Justice Department is rescinding its protocol for federal executions that allowed for single-drug lethal injections with pentobarbital.

"We know from the scientific data that single drug pentobarbital results in pulmonary edema, which has been likened to waterboarding," said Kelley Henry, a Federal public defender. Death row ...

Kelley Henry, chief of the federal public defender's habeas unit that represents many of Tennessee's death row inmates, on the state's new execution protocol being kept secret. "The vast majority ...