Capital punishment remains legal throughout much of the United States. However, the form of execution does vary. These are ...

Arizona's botched executions have sparked a national debate over the use of lethal injections, with questions raised about ...

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 ...

After an attempt to add firing squads to Indiana law stalled in the Senate, a House panel on Wednesday passed a bill ...

By: Casey Smith Indiana Capital Chronicle For The Republic A bill expanding Indiana’s execution methods was significantly ...

NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - States with the death penalty that are running short of the drugs needed to carry out lethal injections will face legal challenges if they take up other methods of ...

Louisiana's infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved to lethal injections as the sole method to carry ...

After an attempt to add firing squads to Indiana law stalled in the Senate, a House panel Wednesday passed a bill expanding the state’s execution methods. Firing squad and nitrogen hypoxia would be ...