On Friday afternoon, the state of South Carolina carried out the first execution by firing squad in the United States in 15 years . As a method of execution, the firing squad had been largely ...

Former Florida State Prison Warden Ron McAndrew argues that Florida's rapid scheduling of executions is pushing the state's ...

U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson dismissed Nichols' lawsuit on Nov. 26, ruling that the statute of limitations barred him from challenging his method of execution. His attorneys at the Federal ...

Throughout history, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging. Lethal injection is the preferred method, but it is not ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection before his Dec. 11 execution. Nichol declined to make his choice Nov. 10, a statement ...

(NewsNation) — For the first time in 15 years, the United States is putting someone to death using a firing squad. This undated image provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows ...

Idaho officials recently put off the execution of a convicted murderer because the state couldn't legally find the drugs needed to kill him.

According to court records, the convict broke into the Florida Panhandle mobile home of Eglin Air Force Base airman Edward ...

Since executions resumed in Sept. 2024, seven men have been executed by lethal injection and firing squad in South Carolina.

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal ...

Missouri would be first state to force execution by lethal gas. July 10, 2013— -- Twenty-one inmates on Missouri's death row have sued the state's Department of Corrections in federal court, ...