Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call ...

Advocates and faith leaders in Idaho plan to gather to express concerns about a potential new firing squad execution center.

The clock is ticking on the fate of capital punishment, in a controversial bill Gov. Josh Stein has until Friday, Oct. 3 to sign, veto or let become law. Per Article II of the North Carolina ...

Readers respond to an editorial about the death penalty. Also: The benefits of small talk; calling all teenagers.

One year ago, Louisiana broke a fifteen-year silence on executions by debuting nitrogen hypoxia. Officials called Jessie Hoffman Jr.’s death “flawless,” yet their own reports noted “convulsive ...

Corrections staff dismantle the death row lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., in 2019 after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a moratorium on the state’s ...

An inmate on death row at Central Prison in Raleigh works on a letter in a common area in one of the four pods on death row in 2004. Inmates on death row wear red to signify they are on death row.

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Washington state has changed its method of execution from a three-drug cocktail to a one-drug system, according to paperwork filed Tuesday with the state Supreme Court. The ...

In his complaint, Michael Wade Nance said his veins were so severely compromised that they were likely to blow and cause him ...