Executions in the US are becoming increasingly cruel, with states adopting new methods such as nitrogen hypoxia and lethal ...

Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. Now, depending on where they're imprisoned, inmates have a ...

A man on death row in South Carolina who taunted investigators with messages written with a victim's blood chose Friday to die by firing squad. Stephen Bryant, 44, will be the third man this year to ...

Advocates hope they can convince developers to drop an Idaho-backed project to convert a jail facility into an execution ...

Louisiana's infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved to lethal injections as the sole method to carry ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A bill to add the firing squad as an execution method in Indiana failed in the House on Wednesday, falling three votes short of the required constitutional majority. The legislation ...

Ellis Rold of WBIR Channel 10 says Tennessee’s most infamous death penalty case is back in the spotlight, again, because the state’s only woman on death row is now suing over how she could be executed ...

After an attempt to add firing squads to Indiana law stalled in the Senate, a House panel Wednesday passed a bill expanding the state’s execution methods. Firing squad and nitrogen hypoxia would be ...

Last year, Governor Brad Little signed House Bill 37, designating firing squad as Idaho's primary execution method when ...