The hero of Mactan’s statue joins the Gomburza National Monument, also within the National Museum Complex, in highlighting pivotal moments in our history that culminated in the execution of Dr.

Gov. Bill Lee said he does not plan to intervene in Oscar Smith's execution scheduled for May 22. Smith has no legal avenues remaining to avoid execution. Gov. Bill Lee has denied Oscar Smith’s ...

Richard Jordan's execution is pending a response from the U.S. Supreme Court to his petition for review. Mississippi has executed 23 people since the nationwide moratorium on executions was lifted ...

"While it is true that this case concerns Idaho's lethal injection execution procedures, it equally concerns the public's First Amendment right of access to the State's administration of the most ...

THE ELECTRIC CHAIR BECAME THE OFFICIAL METHOD, REALLY REFLECTING THE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES AND REALLY A SHIFT TOWARDS LESS PUBLIC AND MORE HUMANE EXECUTION STYLES. THEN, MOST RECENTLY ...

After Alabama carried out the country's first known execution by nitrogen gas last year, the state's attorney general delivered a message to other states: "Alabama has done it, and now so can you." ...

Texas death row inmate David Leonard Wood's execution, which had been set for this week, was halted by a Texas appeals court on Tuesday. Wood, 67, has spent nearly 33 years on death row and had ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge has halted Louisiana's first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next week. U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued ...

The Supreme Court denied a death row inmate’s last-ditch effort to avoid execution Friday night, clearing the way for the first execution by firing squad in the United States in 15 years.

The executions are scheduled as early as May. The four people the court set execution dates for were scheduled to die before capital punishment was paused in Tennessee in 2022. The Tennessee ...