Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. It's a unique situation globally. While many nations are ...

The death penalty in the United States is sustained by a fantasy and an illusion. Americans imagine that when the state kills, it can do so in a humane manner. We’ve tried many things to turn that ...

It has been five years since the state held an execution and now four people are set to be executed in Tennessee before the end of the year. With the first being Oscar Franklin Smith. Smith, 75, is ...

2:10 Alabama death row inmate faces 1st nitrogen gas execution A convicted murderer in Alabama was executed on Thursday using a novel method a U.S.-based advocacy organization says appears to have a ...

Alabama told a federal judge this week that it could soon be ready to use a new, untried execution method called nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence. The disclosure came Monday at a court ...

Legislators in Nebraska voted Tuesday in favour of retaining the death penalty, but the midwestern state remains without a legal method of putting convicted criminals to death. The state Supreme Court ...

Lawmakers are advancing a proposal to add firing squad, electrocution and gas chamber as execution methods in case a court blocks the use of lethal injection drugs You can save this article by ...

So said Ralph Menzies upon being sentenced to death in 1988 and asked which method of execution he preferred. Having since spent nearly four decades on Utah's death row, the 67-year-old murder convict ...

A Saudi newspaper says a ministerial committee is looking into formally dropping public beheadings as a method of execution in the oil-rich kingdom because it can't find enough swordsmen. You can save ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. Now, depending on where they're imprisoned, inmates have a ...