In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace.

Alabama’s first scheduled execution of 2026 was halted on June 11. The U.S. Supreme Court allowed a lower court ruling to stand, blocking the state from using nitrogen gas to execute death row inmate ...

Oklahoma’s death row currently includes 21 inmates whose convictions span cases from 1992 through 2022. Oklahoma has executed 131 people since 1990, all by lethal injection. The state had a six-year ...

Idaho will use firing squads as its primary method of capital punishment, the first state in the United States to officially ...

Alabama's plans to execute a death row inmate using nitrogen gas appeared to be thwarted Tuesday by a federal judge permanently blocking the state from using that method, declaring it violates the ...

Some execution teams have struggled or failed to find suitable veins, needles have become clogged or disengaged and in some cases multiple doses of the drugs have been needed to kill the condemned ...

ORDINANCES TOMORROW MORNING. THAT’S SET TO START AT NINE. A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT WANTS A LOWER COURT TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT ALABAMA’S USE OF NITROGEN GAS AND DEATH ROW EXECUTIONS. THE COURT RULED ...

Updated on June 11 at 9:28 p.m. Alabama came to the Supreme Court on Thursday morning, asking the justices to allow the execution of Jeffery Lee to proceed as scheduled on Thursday night. The lower ...

Alabama's relatively new nitrogen gas execution method could inflict a cruel amount of pain and suffering on a death row inmate who says he'd rather be killed by a firing squad, a federal appeals ...