Idaho prison officials must let media witnesses at executions watch as lethal injection drugs are prepared and administered to a condemned person, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge ...

Throughout history, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging. Lethal injection is the preferred method, but it is not ...

An execution in the state of Alabama is raising more questions about a controversial drug used in lethal injections. Late last night, Alabama executed Ronald Bert Smith, a convicted murderer. In that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Little is known about how Indiana acquired pentobarbital, a drug that state officials have used twice for executions in the last ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Roy Lee Ward and the Indiana Attorney General’s Office are sparring before the state’s highest court over whether Ward’s tentative execution date should stand. Ward’s ...

(NewsNation) — For the first time in 15 years, the United States put someone to death using a firing squad. This undated image provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Brad ...

Mississippi allows execution by firing squad, but has never used this method. Richard Jordan, Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — For the first time in five years, a man is about to be executed in Tennessee. 75-year-old Oscar Franklin Smith will be given a lethal injection at 10 a.m. Thursday. This will ...

(NewsNation) — For the first time in 15 years, the United States is putting someone to death using a firing squad. Death row ...

HOUSTON — Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to die on Tuesday in Louisiana. He was ...