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 ...

“The fact that he ‘chose’ this, that tells you how fearful he is about this lethal injection process that’s so shrouded in secrecy,” his lawyer, Gerald “Bo” King, told the Washington Pos ...

Charles Brooks, a longtime Birmingham funeral director who handled services for young victims killed in two high-profile civil rights incidents in the city, died Saturday at UAB Hospital.

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 ...

About 90% of the US population has gotten their two dose regimen to protect against measles, mumps and rubella, but increasingly, the unvaccinated have been contracting the highly contagious, deadly ...

But Brad Sigmon, who had been convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents in 2001, chose to be shot to death because he believed it would involve less suffering than the two other options the ...

Under those guidelines, lethal injections of companion or laboratory animals are limited to injection by qualified personnel of certain clinically tested, Food and Drug Administration-approved ...

Sigmon's lawyers said he chose the firing squad because the electric chair would “cook him alive,” and he feared that a lethal injection of pentobarbital into his veins would send a rush of ...

The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office reported an active brush fire at Table Rock State Park. There have been questions among some of the 60,000 Greater Greenville Sanitation customers as to why ...

The South Carolina inmate chose the method because of his concerns about lethal injection, his lawyer said. By Eduardo Medina Reporting from Columbia, S.C. The state of South Carolina executed a ...

Sigmon was given the choice between lethal injection, the electric chair, or the firing squad. His attorney argues that he was not fully informed about the lethal injection process and feared the ...