RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A proposal that would force inmates to die by electric chair if lethal injection drugs can’t be found is gaining steam in Virginia, in part because of a looming execution ...

The Trump administration will adopt firing squads as a form of execution going forward -- a move one of Virginia's U.S.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Documents show Virginia prison officials have paid a compounding pharmacy $66,000 to obtain lethal injection drugs needed for two executions. The cost of carrying out death ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The state of Virginia is asking a federal court to deny an inmate’s request to halt his upcoming execution. Attorneys for convicted killer Ricky Gray have asked the U.S. District ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — On a 1989 audio recording crackling with static, an inmate is barely audible as he offers his last words before he is executed in Virginia’s ...

RICHMOND, Va. Virginia's governor on Tuesday spared the life of a convicted killer who would have been the 1,000th person executed in the United States since the Supreme Court allowed capital ...