Complications with lethal injections in recent years have led to the revival of execution methods that had been previously ...

The Trump administration announces plans to reintroduce firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation as federal execution methods. This move follows difficulties in sourcing drugs for lethal ...

For centuries, societies have searched for a way to execute criminals without cruelty, believing progress could make death humane. We trace how the United States moved from hangings and electric ...

Alabama, unless stopped by the courts, intends to strap inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney and use a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen needed to stay alive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The chair used for firing squad executions is shown in the execution chamber at the Utah State Correctional Facility. (Photo ...

Dennis McGuire likely consciously suffered as he gasped for air and strained against his restraints before dying by lethal injection in January, according to an expert who signed a court affidavit on ...

One year ago, Louisiana broke a fifteen-year silence on executions by debuting nitrogen hypoxia. Officials called Jessie Hoffman Jr.’s death “flawless,” yet their own reports noted “convulsive ...