It has been five years since the state held an execution and now four people are set to be executed in Tennessee before the end of the year. With the first being Oscar Franklin Smith. Smith, 75, is ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislators are poised this week to approve criminal justice measures designed to toughen bail rules, restrict magistrates’ powers and evaluate offenders ...

EXECUTIONS HERE IN LOUISIANA, SEVERAL METHODS HAVE BEEN USED OVER THE YEARS. SO EARLY ON DURING OUR EARLY STATEHOOD AND COLONIAL PERIOD, HANGING WAS THE PRIMARY METHOD. IT WAS A PUBLIC SPECTACLE TO ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. It's a unique situation globally. While many nations are ...

Indiana lawmakers attempted to pass legislation that would allow the state execute people via gas chambers and firing squads. Indiana lawmakers tried to pass legislation that would allow the state to ...

While capital punishment is rarely used in the U.S., other countries continue to carry out the method of final judgment. While typically reserved for the most extreme cases, some of these execution ...

Mississippi allows execution by firing squad, but has never used this method. Richard Jordan, Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection.

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. Now, depending on where they're imprisoned, inmates have a ...

Arkansas became the fifth state to authorize nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution Tuesday, after Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed legislation codifying the controversial method into ...

Throughout history, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging. Lethal injection is the preferred method, but it is not ...

Indiana lawmakers are reconsidering the use of the firing squad as an alternative to lethal injection, amid concerns over cost, fairness and the risk of executing innocent people.