Last year, a new execution method was used in the U.S. for the first time since 1982. Here’s a look at how people have been ...

Charles Reynolds ... and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put 592 people to death, according to online records. Charlie Brooks was that first in that ...

Nine inmates on Tennessee’s death row have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new lethal injection protocol citing a high risk of torturous death and what they say is a history of ...

Tennessee has paid nearly $600,000 for lethal injection drugs in recent years, but the details are shrouded in secrecy. The scarce information comes as the state plans to resume executions this ...

Since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging.

Lethal injection, electrocution and now firing squads. A look at US execution methods Since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976, states have used five different ...

Wendell Grissom, 56, was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 10:13 a.m., Steven Harpe, who is the executive director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, said during a news conference ...