Idaho’s stockpile of execution drugs, which is housed at the Idaho state prison complex south of Boise, has cost taxpayers $200,000 over the past two years. All of the hard-to-find chemicals have ...

The state of Arizona resumed executions on Wednesday morning, after a two-year moratorium prompted by three botched executions performed in 2022. The morning execution of Aaron Gunches by lethal ...

He was executed by lethal injection.

HOUSTON (AP) — South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in nearly 15 years. Since the Supreme Court lifted ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP/WCSC) - The next South Carolina death row inmate set to be executed has selected lethal injection as the method after his lawyers said he was troubled by the last execution by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Billy Kearse, a 53-year-old man, was executed by lethal injection at the state prison in Raiford, Florida, on Tuesday after his request for a stay was denied.

A South Carolina man on death row for two separate murders in 2005 has opted to die by lethal injection. Stephen Christopher Stanko, who wrote a book about his experiences in prison following an ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to die on Tuesday in Louisiana. He was ...