How many people have been executed in Mississippi? How were their deaths conducted? How many women executed? Any notable ...

“It's a remarkable development,” Frank Baumgartner, a death penalty researcher and political science professor ... Then the firing squads and hangings of the Wild West days moved to the electric chair ...

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

Charles Reynolds was the first person in Texas to die in the electric chair on Feb. 8, ... Currently 27 states, the federal government and the U.S. military use the death penalty.

Alabama has set an execution date for a man convicted three decades ago of shooting a woman in the head while she slept.