Executions in the US are becoming increasingly cruel, with states adopting new methods such as nitrogen hypoxia and lethal ...

Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arizona State Sen. Kevin Payne has a very bad idea. Earlier this month, Payne introduced a proposal in the Arizona Senate to ask ...

Advocates and faith leaders in Idaho plan to gather to express concerns about a potential new firing squad execution center.

Advocates hope they can convince developers to drop an Idaho-backed project to convert a jail facility into an execution ...

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 ...

A man on death row in South Carolina who taunted investigators with messages written with a victim's blood chose Friday to die by firing squad. Stephen Bryant, 44, will be the third man this year to ...

Louisiana's infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved to lethal injections as the sole method to carry ...

An Alabama death row inmate is set to become the seventh man executed in the state with the controversial method of nitrogen hypoxia. Anthony Todd Boyd, 54, is being executed on Thursday, Oct. 23, for ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A bill to add the firing squad as an execution method in Indiana failed in the House on Wednesday, falling three votes short of the required constitutional majority. The legislation ...