A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in South Carolina since ...

Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is taking shots at fellow rumored 2028 presidential candidate and Democratic Gov. Gavin ...

Experience and preparation allowed AP reporter Jeffrey Collins to take news consumers inside the South Carolina death chamber ...

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

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill on Wednesday making death by firing squad the preferred method for executions, and death ...

The Louisiana attorney general's office has filed an emergency brief with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding a scheduled execution for next week.

Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama and ...

Idaho will become the only state to fatally shoot death row inmates as its main execution method. Idaho Gov. Brad Little on ...

Maintaining a system that risks killing the innocent along with the guilty is itself a crime — and one that underscores the need to do away with capital punishment.

The action comes on the heels of the first U.S. execution by firing squad in nearly 15 years last week in South Carolina.

The Idaho Legislature widely approved the bill. Only three Republican state lawmakers joined all 15 Democratic lawmakers to ...

The most recent U.S. execution took place Friday, when Brad Sigmon, 67, died by firing squad in South Carolina. Sigmon, who ...