Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods.

In between Sotomayor’s two frequently cited endorsements of the firing squad, Professor Deborah Denno, this nation’s leading scholar about methods of execution, raised eyebrows when she called ...

Last year, a new execution method was used in the U.S. for the first time since 1982. Here’s a look at how people have been executed throughout history.

The Constitution does not guarantee inmates a painless death. But Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University, pointed out judges have deemed certain execution methods cruel and unusual ...

Among southern states, lethal injection is the only method of execution in Georgia and North Carolina. Georgia didn’t switch from electrocutions to lethal injection until 2001.

The search for a safe, reliable and humane method The firing squad is among the country’s oldest execution methods, according to Deborah Denno, a professor at Fordham Law School who studies the ...