Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...

A group of former Alabama state and federal prosecutors, including a former Attorney General and a former U.S. Senator, filed ...

In 2023, Idaho passed a law to allow firing squads for executions. But that law only allowed firing squads as a back-up execution method when lethal injection – the primary execution method in Idaho ...

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year, and 12 other people are scheduled to be executed in six states ...

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

A judge is set to decide this week whether the use of nitrogen gas to execute Jessie Hoffman in Louisiana is constitutional. Hoffman, convicted of raping and killing a woman nearly 30 years ago in St.

Nitrogen hypoxia, a method of execution Arkansas lawmakers are considering adopting, makes for a torturous death, witnesses ...

Biden only left three mass killers on death row: Dylann Roof, who killed nine people at a church in Charleston, South ...

Supreme Court Justices Powell, Blackmun, and Stevens allowed the death penalty to return. Then they disavowed it.

Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) — A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in ...