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The idea of using firing squads is making a comeback. Idaho lawmakers passed a bill this week seeking to add…
"I don’t feel, as the director of the Idaho Department of Correction, the compulsion to ask my staff to do…
Oklahoma’s new attorney general, Gentner Drummond, had requested at least 60 days between executions, instead of 30 days, because he said carrying…
Alabama has changed death penalty procedures to give the prison system more time to carry out executions.
Attorneys for a Missouri man scheduled to be executed next month are seeking a new hearing, citing a new alibi.
The South Carolina Supreme Court is hearing arguments on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, to determine if execution in the electric…
Texas’ top criminal appeals court has barred a civil court judge from issuing any orders in a lawsuit by three…
Unless Missouri Gov. Mike Parson grants clemency, McLaughlin will become the first transgender woman executed in the U.S.
According to an independent review released Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022, Tennessee has not complied with its own lethal injection protocol…
Payton Gendron pleaded guilty last month to state charges of murder and hate-motivated terrorism in the shooting at Tops Friendly…
There were 18 executions in the U.S. in 2022, the fewest in any pre-pandemic year since 1991 after 11 were…
Kate Brown, who has less than a month in office, said their sentences will be changed to life without the…
Kevin Johnson, who died by lethal injection, was convicted in the murder of an officer he blamed for the death…
Kevin Johnson might not be facing imminent execution if he was white, attorneys speaking on his behalf told the Missouri…
New Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued her first Supreme Court opinion Monday, a short dissent in support of a death row…
Alabama wants to execute prisoners with a new, untested method of capital punishment called nitrogen hypoxia.
A South Carolina judge ruled Tuesday that the state's newly created execution firing squad, as well as its use of the electric…
Alabama’s prison system said Friday that the execution Joe Nathan James Jr. was delayed because of the time it took…
The DOJ is considering whether to seek the death penalty against the Buffalo suspect accused of murdering 10 African Americans.
After Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee halted a lethal injection in April because he learned the drugs hadn't been tested as…