The state prison system just implemented a new law that allows firing squad executions. Two longtime prisoners raised ...

Dennis Michael Sochor, convicted of strangling an 18-year-old woman he met at a New Year’s celebration in a Broward County bar 44 years ago, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday at Florida ...

Two of Idaho's longest-serving death row inmates filed a lawsuit against IDOC's director alleging a lack of reasoning in approving the state's new execution policy.

Alabama can’t execute a prisoner using its current nitrogen execution process, said the man’s lawyers, but that doesn’t mean the state couldn’t change that process. Jeffery Lee was supposed to die by ...

The state of Idaho has revealed exactly how its new firing squad executions will work. Right down to how volunteer police ...

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward.

It’s unlikely Gov. Bill Lee will call a death penalty moratorium before Tennessee’s next execution. Calls for a temporary ...

A 74-year-old man, who became the oldest individual to be executed in Florida since records were first kept in 1924, offered ...

In a lawsuit, convicted killer Christa Pike is arguing Tennessee's lethal injection procedure would be cruel and unusual punishment.

The Justice Department on Friday said it will seek to impose the death penalty in more federal cases and will expand the way in which convicted inmates can be killed—including bringing back the firing ...

On the evening of February 24, the state of Florida continued its aggressive use of the death penalty, executing 65-year-old Melvin Trotter at Florida State Prison near Starke. Trotter, who had spent ...