Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year, and 12 other people are scheduled to be executed in six states ...

South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad on March 7, marking its first use of the execution method.

A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas. It was scheduled to take place next week ...

Six death row inmates have been executed in the U.S. so far this year, compared to two by this time last year.

Louisiana has attempted "to give the blessing of religion" onto its death penalty practices, says Sister Helen Prejean. Still ...

Experience and preparation allowed AP reporter Jeffrey Collins to take news consumers inside the South Carolina death chamber ...

"There's nothing legally that prevents or stops us from moving forward with executing Jessie Hoffman if the preliminary injunction is vacated," she said. "I believe this execution is going to go ...

Indeed, critics have argued nitrogen hypoxia causes suffering, pointing in part to witness accounts that inmates shook on gurneys during recent gas executions in Alabama, the only US state that ...

Murderer Brad Kieth Sigmon was shot dead by a three-person firing squad, after calling for an end to the death penalty.

It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier ...

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed his name on a bill Wednesday making Idaho the only state in the US to have a firing squad designated as the preferred execution method for capital punishment ...