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 ...

Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad. He would be the first U.S. inmate ...

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

OKLAHOMA CITY — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in favor of convicted murderer Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row, ordering a lower court to review whether she got a ...

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

Keri Blakinger’s ’14 journalistic work covering death row inmates has earned her an Oscar nomination as a producer for the documentary I Am Ready, Warden.

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

A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed by firing squad because he claims that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain. Michael Wade Nance ...

The cold case murder of a Berkeley woman in Tilden Regional Park has been solved using advanced DNA techniques, authorities ...

A convicted killer has been executed after spending over two decades sitting on death row. Back in February 2001, the charred and bullet-ridden body of Kandee Martin was discovered stuffed into ...

The landlady of a village pub where a woman was killed on Valentine's Day has told Sky News the victim was drinking in the pub before she was shot dead in the car park. Michelle Thomas ...