Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call humane.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Corrections staff dismantle the death row lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison. Corrections staff dismantle the ...

One year ago, Louisiana broke a fifteen-year silence on executions by debuting nitrogen hypoxia. Officials called Jessie Hoffman Jr.’s death “flawless,” yet their own reports noted “convulsive ...

While many countries have abolished capital punishment, a number still carry out executions using methods that can seem archaic, unsettling, or deeply unusual by modern standards. These practices are ...

Firing squads have returned to the headlines this week, as Utah took steps toward allowing that method of execution if other options become unavailable. Even though some experts say firing squads are ...

In his complaint, Michael Wade Nance said his veins were so severely compromised that they were likely to blow and cause him ...

An inmate on death row at Central Prison in Raleigh works on a letter in a common area in one of the four pods on death row in 2004. Inmates on death row wear red to signify they are on death row.

Corrections staff dismantle the death row lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., in 2019 after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a moratorium on the state’s ...