Idaho will use firing squads as its primary method of capital punishment, the first state in the United States to officially ...

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama from executing an inmate with nitrogen gas after declaring the method ...

The Supreme Court is weighing Alabama’s nitrogen execution after a judge ruled the method unconstitutional.

From lethal injection to nitrogen gas, here’s a look at the execution methods allowed under Alabama law.

The state will still allow lethal injection for death-row prisoners if it's not possible to use the firing squad.

A controversial new rule in Idaho will allow volunteers to shoot and kill death row inmates. The state has become the first ...

Eight death row inmates in Idaho will soon face a barrage of fatal bullets – after the state adopted the firing squad as its ...

A federal judge permanently blocked Alabama from using nitrogen gas for executions, ruling the method violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Christa Gail Pike was just 18 years old when she committed a crime that dominated headlines for years: She tortured and murdered her romantic rival in Tennessee and later showed off a piece of the ...

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward.

Responding to a lawsuit by an Alabama death row inmate, a federal appeals court says the state’s use of nitrogen gas to put people to death needs more study to determine whether it violates a ...

Alabama's plans to execute a death row inmate using nitrogen gas appeared to be thwarted Tuesday by a federal judge permanently blocking the state from using that method, declaring it violates the ...