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

While many countries have abolished capital punishment, a number still carry out executions using methods that can seem archaic, unsettling, or deeply unusual by modern standards. These practices are ...

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 ...

One year ago, Louisiana broke a fifteen-year silence on executions by debuting nitrogen hypoxia. Officials called Jessie Hoffman Jr.’s death “flawless,” yet their own reports noted “convulsive ...

Rep. Jim Lucas, R-Seymour, listens to a bill on March 31, 2025. (Photo by Whitney Downard/Indiana Capital Chronicle) After an attempt to add firing squads to Indiana law stalled in the Senate, a House ...

Anthony Boyd was the eighth person executed by nitrogen gas since Alabama began using the method last year. His execution came over the strenuous objection of three liberal Supreme Court justices. By ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Alabama death row inmate is set to become the seventh man executed in the state with the controversial method of nitrogen ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The chair used for firing squad executions is shown in the execution chamber at the Utah State Correctional Facility. (Photo ...