South Carolina became the first state since 2010 to execute an inmate by firing squad. Is the method legal in Mississippi?

A death penalty expert has offered insight into the chilling final act of Arizona inmate Aaron Brian Gunches as he was put to ...

Arizona has executed a 53-year-old man convicted of kidnapping and murdering his girlfriend's former partner in 2002, marking ...

COURTESY HONOLULU POLICE DEPARTMENT A composite drawing of the suspect in the murder of Dawn Momohara in March 1977. Castro was arrested Jan. 21 at a Utah nursing home, where he was living, on ...

A 53-year-old man convicted of murder was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, becoming the third person executed in ...

The suit claims the state's lethal injection protocol constitutes violations of the state and federal constitutions.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WSPA) — A South Carolina man became the first person in the state ... Corrections. At 6:06 p.m. the witnesses said a medical examiner checked Sigmon’s pulse, and by 6:08 p.m., he was ...

The armed prison employees stood 15 feet (4.6 meters) from where he sat in the state’s death chamber ... of faith to end the ...

Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) — A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in ...