Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Alabama death row inmate is set to become the seventh man executed in the state with the controversial method of nitrogen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama plans to carry out its fifth execution of 2025 Thursday evening, putting Anthony Todd Boyd to death by nitrogen gas ...

Indiana lawmakers attempted to pass legislation that would allow the state execute people via gas chambers and firing squads. Indiana lawmakers tried to pass legislation that would allow the state to ...

The Supreme Court is listening to a proposal to give convicts on death row an option of choosing lethal injection as an alternative to death by hanging as a mode of execution. On Wednesday, the top ...

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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislators are poised this week to approve criminal justice measures designed to toughen bail rules, restrict magistrates’ powers and evaluate offenders ...

Melvin Trotter was executed Feb. 24 for the brutal 1986 murder of Virgie Langford during a convenience store robbery in ...

A bill expanding Indiana’s execution methods was significantly amended Tuesday after lawmakers voted to remove nitrogen hypoxia as an option and added provisions on media access and mental health ...