A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die ...

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

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

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly 33 years on death row for the crimes.

Gov. Brad Little signed a bill into law Wednesday to make Idaho the only U.S. state with a firing squad as its preferred option to end prisoners’ lives starting next year, amid lawmaker ...

barbaric — method underscores the complex nature of the American death penalty system in the modern era, where safety and availability issues with lethal injection have prompted some states to ...

Lethal injection has the highest incidence of botched executions, supporting what advocates point to as the death penalty’s fundamental contradiction: There is no humane way to kill a human.

A convicted double murderer in South Carolina became the first American death row inmate to die by firing squad in 15 years — ...

A South Carolina death row inmate who gruesomely killed his ... over the electric chair which would "cook him alive," or a lethal injection, whose details are kept secret in South Carolina ...

Polls show that a majority of Americans favor the death penalty, but many view the firing squad as an archaic form of justice. But as lethal injection drugs have become harder to obtain ...

Inmate Brad Sigmon chose death by firing squad, saying he has concerns about the drugs used in lethal injections.

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Nikko Jenkins — the Omaha spree killer who murdered four people in August 2013 — has demanded to be put ...