A new bill in North Carolina could reshape how the state conducts executions, broadening the available methods and modifying procedures around inmate decision-making. House Bill 270, introduced by a ...

A bill moving in the state House this week would reintroduce the electric chair and firing squads as part of the death ...

While North Carolina hasn’t carried out an execution since 2006, the bill would legalize additional ways to carry out the ...

On Tuesday, House Bill 270 moved to its next committee. The bill changes the go-to execution method from lethal injection to ...

North Carolina lawmakers will discuss a bill Tuesday that would give death row inmates the option to choose between three execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, or firing squad.

A bill advancing in the state legislature Tuesday would allow people sentenced to death in North Carolina to choose between three options for their execution: lethal injection, electrocution, or ...

A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...

Over the last half-century, the political leanings of the Supreme Court, Congress, and the presidency contributed to ...

Alabama has executed a man who said he was guilty of a woman's rape and murder and deserved to die. Fifty-five-year-old James Osgood received a lethal injection Thursday evening at a south Alabama ...

A man on Alabama’s death row wants his execution to go forward this week, saying he believes in an “eye for an eye.” “The ...

Robeson County authorities have asked state authorities to conduct an independent investigation after an inmate charged with ...