Ukraine hawks are boiling over at the Pentagon’s decision to halt shipments of some lethal aid to Ukraine, with phone lines ...

Clive Stafford Smith, who is retired from Death Row law, continues to campaign against the penalty and claims the US is ...

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

How many people have been executed in Mississippi? How were their deaths conducted? How many women executed? Any notable ...

Lethal Injection, Electric Chair, or Firing Squad? An Inhumane Decision for Death Row Prisoners South Carolina resumed executions with the firing squad killing of Brad Sigmon last month.

State law allows inmates to die by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair. Sigmon's lawyers said he also didn't choose the chair because he said he didn't want to be cooked alive.

Lethal injection, electric chair, firing squad or even nitrogen gas: the execution methods still used in the world today as one death row inmate in the US faces an impossible choice ...

Freddie Owens, 46, a convicted killer who gunned down a store clerk during a botched robbery in 1997, was given the choice of lethal injection, electric chair or firing squad when he is put to death.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's prisons director said Wednesday that state's supply of a lethal injection drug is pure, its electric chair was tested a month ago ...

Lethal injection, firing squad or the electric chair. It was the result of several years of litigation by a quartet of death row inmates who had exhausted every other legal avenue to save their lives.

The case challenged 2021 legislation that made the default method of execution the electric chair, with the firing squad as the alternative. "In 2021, South Carolina turned back the clock and ...

South Carolina says all three execution methods allowed in the state — electrocution, lethal injection, and now, firing squad — fit existing protocols. "Courts have never held the death has to ...