The state will still allow lethal injection for death-row prisoners if it's not possible to use the firing squad.

Correction officials confirmed Westville can accommodate firing squad executions as lawmakers, governor and the U.S. Justice ...

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward.

Florida executed its oldest inmate on Thursday, continuing a sharp increase in executions under Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The state of Alabama isn’t giving up trying to execute Jeffery Lee, even after the Supreme Court upheld a ruling barring the state from gassing him on Thursday night. Less than 24 hours after the ...

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Louisiana has resumed executions using a novel nitrogen gas method — a legacy, in part, of problems getting the drugs used for lethal injections. But the injection method remains on the books in the ...

Andrew Richard Lukehart, 53, was sentenced to death after being convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse ...

Florida executed Dusty Ray Spencer by lethal injection Thursday, June 25, for the brutal 1992 murder of his wife in front of ...

The first and only time Tiana Broadnax physically touched her husband, he lay dead on a gurney. James Broadnax had just been ...