Oregon settled for $1.9 million with Frank Gable after he was convicted and later exonerated for the killing of the state’s prison chief in 1989.

Only three other defendants had been executed by firing squad in the country since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Sigmon’s execution was the sixth in the U.S. so far in 2025.

However, between 1917 and 1955, the death penalty abolition movement again slowed. Washington, Arizona, and Oregon in 1919-20 reinstated the death penalty. In 1924, the first execution by cyanide ...

The action comes on the heels of the first U.S. execution by firing squad in nearly 15 years last week in South Carolina.

A recently unsealed defense motion in the capital murder case against Bryan Kohberger offers the most detailed picture of the ...

Melly could be sentenced to death by a non-unanimous jury — a practice with deep roots in Jim Crow — if convicted in a double homicide.

BOISE, Idaho — The defense team for Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022, may seek the removal of the death penalty as a sentencing option ...