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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Lethal injection has been the preferred method in the modern era, with 1,428 carried out since 1976. Texas has done the most, ...

Sigmon's decision stems from concerns about the effectiveness of lethal injection, with his lawyers citing prolonged ...

The sustained decline of the death penalty is not explained merely by procedural problems. The death penalty’s biased application and inherent risk of executing innocent people ...

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 ...

barbaric — method underscores the complex nature of the American death penalty system in the modern era, where safety and availability issues with lethal injection have prompted some states to ...