Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and ...

Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came a week before Jessie Hoffman was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the ...

Inmate Brad Sigmon chose death by firing squad, saying he has concerns about the drugs used in lethal injections.

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

The last time such an execution took place was 15 years ago, in Utah. The South Carolina inmate chose the method because of ...

If signed into law by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the bill would make Arkansas the fourth state in the U.S. to allow ...

Arkansas currently only allows executions by lethal injection. If this bill becomes law, the state would join a small group ...

Some say the firing squad is more humane than lethal injections, which have been botched ... Her comments came in the case of an Alabama inmate who asked to be executed by firing squad.

Hours after the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas in January last year, Alabama’s attorney general urged other states to also develop it as a method for carrying out death sentences. Now, some ...

A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas. It was scheduled to take place next week ...