A proposed bill in Indiana may introduce execution by firing squad as an alternative to lethal injection due to difficulties ...

Harold Wayne Nichols is to be executed Dec. 11. He's asked Gov. Bill Lee to commute his sentence to life without the possibility of parole.

State Sen. Mike Young introduced Senate Bill 11 on Thursday, Dec. 4, which aims to allow 5-man firing squads to carry out the ...

The chair used for firing squad executions is shown in the execution chamber at the Utah State Correctional Facility. A judge has signed a death warrant to execute death row inmate Ralph Menzies on ...

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Missouri would be first state to force execution by lethal gas. The Missouri attorney general said recently that if a federal court did not rule to allow Missouri to use the drug propofol to execute ...

A federal judge Wednesday told lawyers for a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days that he doesn’t plan to stop the execution because they didn’t have evidence there were problems with ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee executed an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his heart when the lethal chemicals ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his girlfriend and her two young daughters in the 1980s said he was “hurting so bad” while he was given a lethal injection Tuesday in Tennessee, ...

Brian Kilmeade, the co-host of Fox & Friends, delivered an apology on the show after saying that homeless and mentally ill criminals should be given lethal injections. During their discussion, Jones ...