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 death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice ...

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

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

Over 1,600 executions have taken place in the United States since the 1970s, and the vast majority have been carried out by lethal injection, according to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPI ...

Lethal injection has been used in nearly 90% of all executions in the U.S. since 1977, according to a database from the Death Penalty Information Center, because it has been widely considered the most ...

On Thursday, Sigmon asked the U.S. Supreme Court to delay his execution because the state doesn't release enough information about the lethal injection drug. The death row inmate's only remaining ...

Shooting prisoners to death has consequences for the reputation of the state,” a national death penalty expert said.

Lethal injection has been used in nearly 90% of all executions in the U.S. since 1977, according to a database from the Death Penalty Information Center, because it has been widely considered the ...