According to Williams, during an execution, the target is placed on the inmate’s chest, with witnesses surrounding the scene. The method is based on the expectation that bullets will hit the heart, ...

Idaho lawmakers have advanced a bill to make a firing squad the state’s primary method of execution, as the trial of accused University of Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger approaches. Firing squad expert ...

An man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in Alabama in the nation’s fourth execution using ...

Frazier was convicted of capital murder for breaking into a Birmingham woman's apartment, stealing cash, raping her at ...

A serial rapist and murderer was put to death by nitrogen gas in Alabama on Thursday, the fourth use of the controversial ...

Alabama became the first state to carry out executions with nitrogen gas when three inmates were put to death using the ...

Idaho House Bill 37 aims to make the firing squad the state's primary means of execution as prosecutors prepare to try Bryan ...

Steven Lawayne Nelson was condemned for the 2011 killing of the Rev. Clint Dobson at a Baptist church in Arlington. Dobson’s ...

A man on Pennsylvania’s death row was found deceased in their cell on Tuesday morning. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections says Tam Le, 53, was found unresponsive at ...

Officials say a suspect in the fatal shooting that left one co-worker dead and five others wounded at an Ohio cosmetics ...