Florida executed Chadwick Scott Willacy on April 21 for the 1990 murder of his neighbor, marking the state’s fifth execution ...

Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said Wednesday that his office plans to seek execution warrants for three ...

Executions then resumed in 1977, when double murderer Gary Gilmore was put to death by firing squad. A steady rise in ...

The Tennessee attorney general's office pushed back hard, telling the Supreme Court that the media coalition has no special ...

In the gruesome landscape of state-sanctioned murder in the US, the construction of a remote-controlled firing squad chamber ...

Indiana lawmakers tried to pass legislation that would allow the state to execute people using nitrogen gas or a firing squad. What's Undetermined: The legislation failed to pass. If it had become law ...

A Florida death row inmate scheduled to die next week is making a final push for transparency, citing a U.S. Supreme Court Justice’s recent warning about “intolerable” secrecy in the state’s execution ...

A new Idaho law exempts execution procedures from judicial review and public scrutiny, raising concerns about transparency and accountability in the death penalty system.

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing a 70-year-old grocery store owner was put to death Tuesday in Florida, becoming the second person executed by the state this year after a record 19 ...