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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anti-death penalty advocates are lodging a final push ... The state plans to put Smith to death with nitrogen gas, the first time the new method has been used in the United States.

Over the past decade, as the Death Penalty Information Center reports ... it cannot hide the “method and manner” it uses to put people to death. Grasham rightly asserts that “viewing ...

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 U.S. Supreme Court has never found any specific method of execution to be unconstitutional, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Of the more than 1,600 executions in the modern ...

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 ...