Capital punishment remains legal throughout much of the United States. However, the form of execution does vary. These are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Mississippi prepares to execute its longest-serving death row inmate, questions about how the state carries out capital ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. INDIANAPOLIS — In October, Indiana is ...

Alabama’s new way of carrying out executions by nitrogen hypoxia is under review by a federal court as lawyers for a death row inmate try to establish that it causes unnecessary suffering. Lawyers for ...

Idaho Governor Brad Little has signed a new law-making firing squads the state’s primary method of execution. He signed House Bill 37 Wednesday morning. A firing squad has been the secondary method of ...