Since Texas reinstated capital punishment and adopted lethal injection as its means of execution in 1977, the state has put ...

Abraham Bonowitz of Death Penalty Action said the method of execution is “experimental gas suffocation.” He said it needs more scrutiny in the federal courts before Alabama uses it to carry ...

Idaho House Republicans on Monday advanced a bill that would make death by firing squad the main death penalty method in Idaho. Presenting House Bill 37 to the Idaho House Judiciary, Rules and ...

A serial rapist and murderer is to be put to death by nitrogen gas in Alabama, the fourth use of the controversial execution method in the southern state ... The jury voted 10-2 to recommend the death ...

Frazier in his final words criticized Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for not returning him to serve out a previous life sentence in her state, which doesn't have the death penalty.

Ending capital punishment had been a dormant issue in Indiana, but advocates now believe a Republican-led effort to abolish ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital ...

The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...

In a 120-page order, Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons also ruled that race was “a significant factor” in other death ...