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 ...

For the first time in its modern history, South Carolina has executed a prisoner by firing squad. WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in ...

Alabama has set an execution date for an inmate who dropped his appeals this summer and asked to be put to death.

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 ...

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 ...

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

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

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 ...