which has the "worst track record of any method of execution" and can lead to long and torturous deaths. The death penalty can also be a more expensive procedure for the state. In countries with ...

Federal prosecutors were directed by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi this week to pursue the death penalty against Luigi ... it was the sole method of execution. Methods were then expanded to ...

Idaho could become the only state in the nation to have a firing squad as the primary method of execution. Idaho Gov. Brad ...

More than two-thirds of the Republican-controlled Legislature supported the bill, which keeps lethal injection as the state’s backup method ... ones and the death penalty is a way to bring ...

It marks the first time Louisiana has carried out the death penalty in 15 years, and the first time the state has used the controversial gas method in a state-sanctioned killing. Alabama first ...

(OSV News/Reuters/Shannon Stapleton) Advocates of the death penalty argue that it is a necessary deterrent, yet what happened in South Carolina reveals a more profound truth: The method is not ...

“No matter the method, the death penalty is cruel and inhumane." Nicholas Cote of Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty questioned whether a firing squad would be an easier way to ...

When the state transitions next year to a firing squad as its primary way to carry out the death penalty, lethal injection will be the backup execution method. The cost to house a prisoner on ...

Members of the Jews Against Gassing Coalition, which does not broadly oppose the death penalty, emphasize there ... “But to use a method that was a form of state-sanctioned murder and genocide ...

The introduction of nitrogen gas as a method of execution comes as the death penalty has become something of a dead letter in Arkansas, primarily because the state is having trouble acquiring the ...

There are renewed efforts to end Ohio's death penalty stalemate one way or the ... earlier in 2025 that would add nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution. It, in essence, suffocates the ...

If you oppose the death penalty, it doesn’t matter what the method is. Killing someone is killing someone. “For us, it’s not about how we kill our prisoners,” said Abraham Bonowitz ...