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% ...

Arizona State Sen. Kevin Payne has a very bad idea.

Record number of executions in Saudi Arabia and drugs crackdown in Iran offset broader global trend away from capital punishment ...

Corrections staff dismantle the death row lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., in 2019 after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a moratorium on the state’s ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Washington state has changed its method of execution from a three-drug cocktail to a one-drug system, according to paperwork filed Tuesday with the state Supreme Court. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama plans to carry out its fifth execution of 2025 Thursday evening, putting Anthony Todd Boyd to death by nitrogen gas ...

An inmate on death row at Central Prison in Raleigh works on a letter in a common area in one of the four pods on death row in 2004. Inmates on death row wear red to signify they are on death row.

After an attempt to add firing squads to Indiana law stalled in the Senate, a House panel Wednesday passed a bill expanding the state’s execution methods. Firing squad and nitrogen hypoxia would be ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. A Republican-drafted crime bill introduced in response to the fatal stabbing on Charlotte’s light rail last month appeared to have ...