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

Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Fla., in 2018, faces either life imprisonment or the death ...

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 ...

An Alabama man on death row for raping and murdering a 5-year-old girl in late 2021 wants the state to hurry up and get it ...

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

Indiana lawmakers attempted to pass legislation that would allow the state execute people via gas chambers and firing squads. Rating: Mixture (About this rating?) What's True: Indiana lawmakers tried ...

The U.S. Supreme Court may reinterpret what is considered a "cruel and unusual punishment." If they do, Albany might become a ...

Utah death row inmates were told they were too late to challenge Utah's execution protocols. Now, the Utah Supreme Court is ...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's scathing annual report calls the state’s execution moratorium a mockery of justice—and ...

Attorneys for Florida death row inmate James Aren Duckett filed an emergency motion with the Florida Supreme Court late ...

James Broadnax's execution date is scheduled for April 30 in the state of Texas.