The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice ...

On 27 March 1998, Brittany Holberg was sentenced to death for the robbery, torture and murder of 80-year-old Texas-local, A.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Feb. 18 issued a death warrant for Edward James, leading to arguments in state and federal courts about ...

FILE - This image provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Alabama death row inmate Robin “Rocky” Myers who was convicted in the 1991 killing of his neighbor, Ludie Mae Tucker.

Nitrogen hypoxia, a method of execution Arkansas lawmakers are considering adopting, makes for a torturous death, witnesses ...

One of the media witnesses to Friday night’s execution, the first ever in the state to use a firing squad, provided his eyewitness account.

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more humane method ...

A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the ...

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

Hours after the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas in January last year, Alabama’s attorney general urged other states to also develop it as a method for carrying out death sentences. Now, some ...

The country’s first execution using nitrogen gas was carried out last year in Alabama, which has now been used to execute four people in the state. If Hoffman’s execution doesn’t get halted, Louisiana ...