Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

For the past five years, no more than 24 executions occurred annually — but 2025 is already near that mark, with more ...

This collection of columns examines the debate in South Carolina over methods of execution for death row inmates. The articles discuss the involvement of the Newman family, with Clifton presiding over ...

Despite the associated blood and gore, the firing squad — condemned inmates like himself were told — offered a quick, sure and less-agonizing death than the state's alternatives of lethal injection ...

Oklahoma prosecutors say they will pursue a murder charge, but not the death penalty, against longtime death row inmate Richard Glossip for his role in the 1997 killing of his former boss.

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods.

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method ... Mahdi's was the second execution by firing squad in the United States this year, following ...

A new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis allows more methods of execution for people convicted of capital crimes.

The agreement covers fewer than 10 of the 34 people currently on Georgia’s death row. While Georgia stopped carrying out executions during the pandemic, death penalty cases continued to wind their way ...