South Carolina allows inmates to choose firing squad, lethal injection or electric chair. In a firing squad execution, the inmate is strapped to a chair in the death chamber. A hood is placed over the ...

Mahdi chose a firing squad over lethal injection or electrocution ... are any legal blocks to the execution. If both answers are no, Mahdi will enter the death chamber at the Broad River ...

A federal judge says Idaho prison officials must allow media witnesses at executions to watch as the lethal injection drugs ...

A man on Alabama's death row wants his execution to go forward Thursday ... Osgood, 55, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday at his south Alabama prison. Alabama has also carried ...

BOISE, Idaho — A federal magistrate judge heard arguments Tuesday morning in a lawsuit brought by three news organizations that say Idaho prison officials are unconstitutionally hiding parts of ...

Michael Tanzi was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida State ... puts man to death in its first nitrogen gas execution, his lawyer says They then headed to ...