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% have involved other methods.
New York State once appointed three men to evaluate every possible way to execute a man—which they did in disturbing detail.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor has raised concerns about the lack of transparency in Florida's execution protocols, warning that the ...
Arizona State Sen. Kevin Payne has a very bad idea.
Corrections staff dismantle the death row lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., in 2019 after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a moratorium on the state’s ...
Record number of executions in Saudi Arabia and drugs crackdown in Iran offset broader global trend away from capital punishment ...
Once again, Arizona stands at a crossroad in its often-troubled history with capital punishment. Republican state legislators have proposed expanding the state’s methods of execution to include lethal ...
A court in Louisiana ruled Jessie Hoffman can be put to death Tuesday using nitrogen hypoxia - deprivation of oxygen causing suffocation.
An inmate on death row at Central Prison in Raleigh works on a letter in a common area in one of the four pods on death row in 2004. Inmates on death row wear red to signify they are on death row.