LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT) - An Arkansas state representative introduced a bill Friday to include nitrogen hypoxia as a form of execution in the state. House Bill 1489, filed by Rep. Jeff Wardlaw ...

Complications with lethal injections in recent years have led to the revival of execution methods that had been previously abandoned.

BOISE, Idaho — A bill establishing firing squads as Idaho’s primary method of execution has advanced to the Senate floor. On Wednesday, Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee members voted 6-3 to ...

INDIANAPOLIS — In October, Indiana is scheduled to execute Roy Lee Ward for raping and murdering 15-year-old Stacy Payne in 2001. Ward waited for Payne’s parents to leave their home for work on July ...

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 ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative ...

NOW. LOUISIANA EXECUTION CASE COULD END UP IN FRONT OF THE SUPREME COURT IF IT PLAYS OUT IN THE APPEALS PROCESS. THAT’S AFTER A FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKED THE STATE FROM EXECUTING JESSE HOFFMAN BY NITROGEN ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. It's a unique situation globally. While many nations are ...