This story has been updated to reflect a stay of execution for one of the death row inmates previously assigned a September execution date. Tennessee will hold one of its first executions in years on ...

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 ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. It's a unique situation globally. While many nations are ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rep. Jim Lucas, R-Seymour, listens to a bill on March 31, 2025. (Photo by Whitney Downard/Indiana Capital Chronicle) After an ...

After Alabama carried out the country's first known execution by nitrogen gas last year, the state's attorney general delivered a message to other states: "Alabama has done it, and now so can you." So ...

Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say.Forty-six people on death row have been executed so far this year, and two ...

HOUSTON — Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, is scheduled to die on Tuesday in Louisiana. He was ...