About 450 BC, the death penalty was often enforced by throwing the condemned into a quagmire. By the 10th Century, hanging from gallows was the most frequent execution method. William the ...

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 ...

The death penalty in America is a policy past its sell ... Yet for some reason many draw a moral distinction between the modern method of death by lethal injection, and methods of the past.

The United States reached a grim milestone Thursday for opponents of the death penalty. Alan Eugene Miller was executed by Alabama’s controversial new nitrogen gas method. Miller’s death marks ...

A judge will decide whether Bryan Kohberger will face the death penalty in his upcoming murder ... Taylor noted that the primary method of execution in the state was lethal injection, but the ...

These are those countries, the method used, and the last date an execution took place. In East, Southeast, and South Asia, 15 countries still have the death penalty. See the list below ...

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

But a recent and ongoing shortage of the drugs used in the killing method has led to a 15-year pause, leading some pro-death penalty officials and lawmakers to open the door for other ways to put ...

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 ...