Leroy McGill was convicted of first-degree murder in 2004. The state will kill him by lethal injection on May 20.

The Justice Department announced Friday it would readopt the death penalty protocols for lethal injection and firing squads.

President Donald Trump’s administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, it announced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Carolina's death chamber includes an electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left. (South Carolina Department of ...

No. South Dakota used hanging and the electric chair before its first lethal injection execution in 2007. The state adopted ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP/WCSC) - The next South Carolina death row inmate set to be executed has selected lethal injection as the method after his lawyers said he was troubled by the last execution by ...

The Department of Justice's report is the latest development in the administration’s long campaign to execute as many people as possible.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday refused to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days, saying the prisoner's lawyers didn't have evidence there were ...

Deborah W. Denno is the Arthur A. McGivney Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. “Welcome to Groundhog Day,” begins Justice Antonin Scalia in his concurrence in Glossip v. Gross, a ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to die on Tuesday in Louisiana. He was ...