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

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

The state will still allow lethal injection for death-row prisoners if it's not possible to use the firing squad.

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 ...

Alabama on Friday moved to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward. The Alabama Attorney General's office asked the Alabama Supreme ...

(RNS) — At the heart of Alabama’s latest death penalty controversy is Jeffery Lee, who became a Christian mentor to other incarcerated men on death row. Opponents to Lee’s execution ask courts to ...

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 ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Updated on June 11 at 9:28 p.m. Alabama came to the Supreme Court on Thursday morning, asking the justices to allow 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 ...

A death row prisoner whose planned execution Thursday was suddenly halted became emotional when he learned that a federal court had ruled Alabama’s use of nitrogen gas violates the constitutional ban ...

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama executing death row inmate Jeffrey Lee with nitrogen gas after finding that it violates the US Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment ...