JARRATT, Va. (AP) — A former Army counterintelligence worker was executed by electric chair Tuesday for killing a Virginia couple, becoming the first U.S. inmate to die by electrocution in 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 ...

Alabama is preparing to execute a man with nitrogen gas for the 1988 beating death of a woman. Gregory Hunt is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday at a south Alabama prison. Hunt was convicted ...

So far in 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed eight death warrants, tying a record for a single year. Here's a look at who's died and who's next.

Sunny Jacobs, a former death row inmate who was convicted of a double murder in Florida in the 1970s and later freed, becoming a news media celebrity and a leading subject in an acclaimed Off ...

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.

The death chamber inside of the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina, contains both the metal chair used in execution by firing squad, left, and the wooden electric ...

Now, depending on where they're imprisoned, inmates have a virtual buffet of ways to die: firing squad, nitrogen gas, the electric chair and still, lethal injection. On top of that, Florida passed ...

An inspector general report found there were no limits on how long federal inmates could be kept in restraint chairs or ...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has decided to let prisons and jails keep charging high prices for ...

Emails show Sheriff Christina Corpus was aware of the potential purchase of 10 massage chairs for officer wellness, however, ...