A South Carolina death row inmate has chosen to be executed by a firing squad next month rather than by lethal injection or ...

A federal judge in the Middle District Court of Louisiana granted a motion to expedite consideration and reopening of the case.

Arkansas is one among several other states that are looking to replace their way of carrying out capital punishment by using ...

On Wednesday, Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee members voted 6-3 to advance HB 37, a bill which would replace lethal injection with death by firing squad as Idaho’s primary execution method for ...

Despite no support for claims that it is a more humane method of execution, Arkansas is looking at using nitrogen gas to kill inmates.

A bill filed in Arkansas legislature Friday would allow the use of nitrogen gas in methods of executions if it passed as law.

A newly proposed bill in Arkansas would add nitrogen gas as a method to execute death row inmates in the state.

A Florida man convicted of killing a husband and wife at a remote farm in an attack witnessed by the couple's toddler was put to death Thursday in the state's first execution of the year.

A Texas man who killed his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...

In 1969 Florida, a reporter returns to his hometown to write a story about a possibly innocent death-row inmate who was convicted of murdering a racist lawman.