Alabama plans to carry out another nitrogen gas execution in August, continuing its use of the controversial method amid ongoing debates over mental health concerns.

Historical data from the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) provides a glimpse of how Mississippi carried out the death penalty. Mississippi has the highest ...

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

Then the firing squads and hangings of the Wild West days moved to the electric chair, which eventually gave way to the ... strapping a mask on the face of inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith and depriving ...

Tennessee executed death row inmate Lee Hall in the electric chair Thursday night, marking the fourth time the state has used the method since 2018. Hall, 53, was pronounced dead at 7:26 p.m. CST ...

A death row inmate who is terrified of the electric chair and being "tortured by lethal injection" has been granted the opportunity to choose the manner of his execution. Brad Sigmon, 67, killed ...

A South Carolina death row inmate is being required to choose between a firing squad, lethal injection and the electric chair for his Nov. 1 execution. Richard Moore, 59, was convicted of the ...

South Carolina Department of Corrections Two days before South Carolina death row inmate Brad Sigmon was due to be put to death in the state’s 109-year-old electric chair, he won a rare reprieve ...

A South Carolina death-row inmate has chosen to die by firing squad rather than electric chair at his scheduled execution later this month. Richard Bernard Moore, who has remained on death row for ...

South Carolina is one of eight states that still use the electric chair and one of four to allow a firing squad, according to the Washington-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. There ...

South Carolina to execute death-row inmate by firing squad or electric chair Barring a successful appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, Richard Bernard Moore will be put to death April 29 for the 1999 ...

SC death row inmate Brad Sigmon would be the first person executed in the state since 2011 and the first put to death in the electric chair since 2008.