Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indiana lawmakers approved several changes Tuesday to a bill expanding execution methods, which is now pending a full House vote. ...

After an attempt to add firing squads to Indiana law stalled in the Senate, a House panel Wednesday passed a bill expanding the state’s execution methods. Firing squad and nitrogen hypoxia would be ...

A man on death row in South Carolina who taunted investigators with messages written with a victim's blood chose Friday to die by firing squad. Stephen Bryant, 44, will be the third man this year to ...

A bill introduced this legislative session would legalize a form of capital punishment largely used during the Civil War but very rarely in modern day United States: execution by firing squad. Senate ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A group of news organizations is suing Tennessee’s Department of Corrections commissioner and a prison warden over the limitations the state’s execution methods present to ...

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New York State once appointed three men to evaluate every possible way to execute a man—which they did in disturbing detail.

INDIANAPOLIS — A bill to add the firing squad as an execution method in Indiana failed in the House on Wednesday, falling three votes short of the required constitutional majority. The legislation ...

Until this year, death penalty executions had been dwindling across the nation. The sudden spike now is unusual, experts say. Forty-six people on death row have been executed so far this year, and two ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislators are poised this week to approve criminal justice measures designed to toughen bail rules, restrict magistrates’ powers and evaluate offenders ...

A bill expanding Indiana’s execution methods was significantly amended Tuesday after lawmakers voted to remove nitrogen hypoxia as an option and added provisions on media access and mental health ...