Nine men on death row in Tennessee have filed a legal challenge against the state’s newly-adopted lethal injection protocol, ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice ...

A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die ...

Louisiana is set to execute death row inmate Jessie Hoffman on March 18 using nitrogen gas, the state's first time using the ...

Kenyan lady Margaret Nduta was sentenced to death in Vietnam after she was found guilty of ferrying drugs to Vietnam in July ...

Lethal injection has been the preferred method in the modern era, with 1,428 carried out since 1976. Texas has done the most, killing 593 inmates, according to the Death Penalty Information Center ...

One afternoon in 2022, when it became clear that the Tennessee Department of Correction had violated or otherwise ignored ...

and another stayed in 2022 amid challenges to the state’s death penalty protocol and shortages of its lethal injection drug. Lawyers for Sigmon said his initial trial did not take mitigating ...

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

On Wednesday, the Tennessee Supreme Court confirmed that the Attorney General has filed motions to set execution dates for five individuals.

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...

Texas uses lethal injection — Pentobarbital — to carry ... As of Feb. 6, 2025, there were 174 people on death row in Texas, seven of whom are women, including Melissa Lucio who was convicted ...