Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward.

Idaho will use firing squads as its primary method of capital punishment, the first state in the United States to officially ...

The senators said they support the death penalty but are concerned about what they called the state’s failure to carry out a ...

A group of Tennessee Republican senators is urging the governor to commission an independent review of a failed execution and ...

Tennessee's lethal injection protocol adopted a year and a half ago appears to include reduced training in IV placement. That ...

The constitutional prohibition of ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ has shaped legal discourse around failed executions, but ...

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As Indiana lawmakers prepare to revive debates over capital punishment methods, corrections officials have confirmed that the ...

Louisiana has resumed executions using a novel nitrogen gas method — a legacy, in part, of problems getting the drugs used for lethal injections. But the injection method remains on the books in the ...

The Justice Department on Friday said it will seek to impose the death penalty in more federal cases and will expand the way in which convicted inmates can be killed—including bringing back the firing ...

The first and only time Tiana Broadnax physically touched her husband, he lay dead on a gurney. James Broadnax had just been pronounced dead after receiving the lethal injection at a prison in ...