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.

Landry’s decision is significant in part because until recently, Louisiana was part of a group I call the death penalty ...

Tennessee's attorney general has filed notice seeking execution dates for five men on death row. It's another sign the state ...

A federal jury found Donald “Lil’ Don” Lee and Torance “Blackie” Benson guilty of a racketeering conspiracy in November 2022 ...

Iran executed 975 people in 2024 in ‘horrifying escalation’ of death penalty, damning report says - At least 31 women and one ...

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

The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...

Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

During his 20 years behind bars, Richard Lee Tabler says he's found God and leads a ministry of Death Row inmates. He's ...

A man — who was convicted in Texas of a double homicide and confessed to killing two others — sought penance from the ...