Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% ...

Throughout history, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging. Lethal injection is the preferred method, but it is not ...

A Tennessee death row inmate is set to be executed on Thursday for the 1988 rape and murder of a Chattanooga State University student. Harold Wayne Nichols will be put to death via lethal injection.

Editor's note: This is the latest edition of Curious Mississippi, a service to the readers of the Clarion Ledger. Other questions answered by Curious Mississippi have surrounded recycling, potholes, ...

Death row inmates in Florida may be poised to face execution by hanging, firing squads, or other rarely used execution methods under a state bill currently awaiting Governor DeSantis’s signature. The ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislators are poised this week to approve criminal justice measures designed to toughen bail rules, restrict magistrates’ powers and evaluate offenders ...

Recent executions have depleted the state's supply of pentobarbital, prompting discussions about alternative execution methods and the future of capital punishment in Indiana. A bill to abolish the ...