The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...

Lawyers are sparring over a COVID-19-related agreement that has shielded some people on Georgia's death row from execution.

A new Colorado bill provides that those who "knowingly" use the wrong "gender identity" on a person's death certificate could ...

Larry Wayne Whitehead, 62, was convicted in 1996 for the death of Albertville police officer and detective Andrew Whitten.

Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after ...

Congolese authorities announced that over 170 prisoners on death row over armed robberies would be executed. A recent video ...

The report came about a month after the UN human rights chief said Iran had executed 901 prisoners in 2024. Volker Turk said ...

Twenty-three states have abolished the death penalty. California should join them in ending state-sponsored executions.

Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) said the figure was the highest since IHR began recording executions in Iran in 2008.

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on ...

Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it ...