Even as President Donald Trump and other national Republican leaders push to expand the use of capital punishment, some GOP-led states are moving in the opposite direction.

Law enforcement officers in Wyoming say President Donald Trump’s promise to make the death penalty mandatory for people who ...

Shooting prisoners to death has consequences for the reputation of the state,” a national death penalty expert said.

Capital punishment has been a feature of America since colonial times and various methods have been used to kill convicts – ...

Molly Elliott's husband is speaking out for the first time in three decades as Jessie Hoffman's Louisiana execution, set for ...

Brad Sigmon, sentenced to death for a 2001 double murder, has chosen death by firing squad, making him the first person to be ...

Christian human rights advocates are warning that some Christian immigrants could face death if deported from the United ...

South Carolina plans to execute a man by firing squad, a method not used in the U.S. for 15 years. Since 1976, lethal ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, was executed by firing squad in South Carolina, becoming the first US prisoner in 15 years to die by this ...

It’s been a decade since a 9-year-old girl vanished from Temple Terrace and was later found dead amid the rocks and mangroves off the Courtney Campbell Causeway. It’s been five years since a Tampa ...

making him the first person to be executed by this method in South Carolina since the reinstatement of the death penalty. Sigmon's decision stems from concerns about the effectiveness of lethal ...