The nitrogen gas asphyxiation execution of Jessie Hoffman Jr. is back on for next week after a ruling Friday from the U.S.

"In sum, the district court didn’t just get the legal analysis wrong — it turned the Constitution on its head, by relying on ...

Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 14 other people are scheduled to be put to death in eight states during the remainder of 2025. Three men ...

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in South Carolina since ...

Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is taking shots at fellow rumored 2028 presidential candidate and Democratic Gov. Gavin ...

Experience and preparation allowed AP reporter Jeffrey Collins to take news consumers inside the South Carolina death chamber ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice ...

Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...

The governor’s action comes less than a week after Brad Sigmon, 67, of South Carolina, was executed by way of a firing squad ...

The Louisiana attorney general's office has filed an emergency brief with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding a scheduled execution for next week.

Idaho will become the only state to fatally shoot death row inmates as its main execution method. Idaho Gov. Brad Little on ...

Maintaining a system that risks killing the innocent along with the guilty is itself a crime — and one that underscores the need to do away with capital punishment.