Idaho will use firing squads as its primary method of capital punishment, the first state in the United States to officially ...

A federal judge banned Alabama from executing an inmate by nitrogen hypoxia, calling the method unconstitutionally cruel.

A North Korean escapee told a Paris congress she first witnessed a public execution at age 9, highlighting Pyongyang's death ...

Seeking justice for past wrongs often takes grieving families across oceans and through complex legal systems.

In Wilkerson v. Utah in 1878, the Supreme Court ruled that death by firing squad was not cruel and unusual punishment “ ...

State Rep. Jody Barrett (R-Dickson) is asking the Tennessee Department of Correction to be transparent about its lethal ...

Fifty years ago, Americans set out on a polarizing mission: to find a just and fair way to punish the worst of the worst crimes by execution. In some ways, this was a surprising choice. In 1972, a ...

Two executions on May 14 were the first in a series of five scheduled across the country over eight days.

"The death penalty has never made a society safer," Macron said during a speech at the ninth World Congress against the death ...

Part of an agreement halting the executions of nine Georgia inmates on death row doesn’t protect them anymore, the Georgia ...

Four death row inmates could be executed, as part of a move that could end a 65-year pause in military executions.