The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...

Arizona lawmakers consider reinstating the firing squad as a death penalty method because of issues with lethal injections.

Lawyers are sparring over a COVID-19-related agreement that has shielded some people on Georgia's death row from execution.

The judge overseeing the case of the man charged with killing four Idaho college students in 2022 has denied his request to ...

The ACLU of Ohio is calling for a repeal of the state's current death penalty laws, but some conservative state lawmakers ...

Robbi Robinson Jr., 25, gave an unsworn statement Tuesday before the same Butler County jury that found him guilty of capital ...

Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...

Catholics and other advocates gathered at the Georgia State Capitol to urge senators to protect individuals with intellectual ...

Rights activists in Singapore and Malaysia will hold candlelight vigils to protest capital punishment as Singaporean authorities prepare to execute a Malaysian man for drug trafficking despite mountin ...

Notwithstanding growing international criticism, an overwhelming majority of Batswana support the continued use of the death ...

Howard E. Gwynn has worked for the Newport News prosecutor’s office for 43 years — 34 of them as the elected prosecutor. That makes him the second longest-serving commonwealth’s ...