The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice over concerns that it might cause unnecessary pain and suffering.

The governor’s action comes less than a week after Brad Sigmon, 67, of South Carolina, was executed by way of a firing squad ...

One afternoon in 2022, when it became clear that the Tennessee Department of Correction had violated or otherwise ignored ...

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

and another stayed in 2022 amid challenges to the state’s death penalty protocol and shortages of its lethal injection drug. Lawyers for Sigmon said his initial trial did not take mitigating ...

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

On Wednesday, the Tennessee Supreme Court confirmed that the Attorney General has filed motions to set execution dates for ...

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...

Texas uses lethal injection — Pentobarbital — to carry ... As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted ...

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...