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

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. Now, depending on where they're imprisoned, inmates have a ...

The clock is ticking on the fate of capital punishment, in a controversial bill Gov. Josh Stein has until Friday, Oct. 3 to sign, veto or let become law. Per Article II of the North Carolina ...

Advocates and faith leaders in Idaho plan to gather to express concerns about a potential new firing squad execution center.

Construction is underway on Idaho’s new firing squad execution facility as the state prepares to make it the primary method ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama plans to carry out its fifth execution of 2025 Thursday evening, putting Anthony Todd Boyd to death by nitrogen gas ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. A Republican-drafted crime bill introduced in response to the fatal stabbing on Charlotte’s light rail last month appeared to have ...

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 ...

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